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...Salter, from Walla Walla, Washington, is so young that he called 29-year-old Sergeant Kyle Childress "Grandpa." "He always took care of me," says Salter, who lost two fingers when his platoon burst into a bombmaker's house near Samarra one night and was met with a torrent of machine-gun fire. As Childress fell, Salter emptied his M-4 rifle into the dark. The return fire raked his chest; his life was saved by his bulletproof vest. "For 48 hours after that, I was a train wreck, dumbfounded," he says, weeping softly in his four-bed hospital room...
This is why I’m upset with President Lawrence H. Summers for his ill-planned (and atrociously misinterpreted) remarks about women in science and engineering; the result for me has been a torrent of e-mails on open lists about the subject, all saying the same thing, none worth my reading...
...swelling torrent of criticism facing University President Lawrence H. Summers quickly broadened yesterday into a full-blown assault on his entire tenure in a shift which could ultimately prove far more damaging for Harvard’s embattled leader...
...marked as a liberal by his lack of a beard, his background as a banker and his modernizing proposals. But some less cautious liberal contenders struck a defiant pose: One candidate boldly proposed legalizing movie theaters and giving women the right to drive cars, earning him a torrent of warnings about Judgment Day from Islamist hardliners. Conservative candidates stressed their credentials as technocrats, but energized supporters with appeals on Islamist websites and open backing from Islamist diehards like Sheikh Salman al Awdah, a onetime Bin Laden ally who argues ?there is no place for secularism in the Muslim world...
...Thirty-five years ago, the pipeline of women to the top was empty because the spigot had never been opened,” Goldin and Katz wrote in an op-ed in The Boston Globe last month which defended Summers from the torrent of criticism his recent remarks on women in science created...