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Though faculty concern with the decline in tenure offers began to brim last summer, when a group of professors expressed its disappointment with the numbers in a letter to Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, it did not explode until Summers suggested on Jan. 14 that “issues of intrinsic aptitude” might be responsible for the dearth of female professors in the sciences...
...DIED. WILLIAM WESTMORELAND, 91, consummate military man who oversaw the buildup of U.S. troops in Vietnam from 1964-68 and was later vilified for it; in Charleston, South Carolina. The strapping West Point graduate led battalions in World War II and Korea, and landed in Vietnam as the great hope of the Johnson Administration. But after the 1968 Tet offensive fueled opposition to the war, he was brought back home to the lower-profile position of Army Chief of Staff. A $120 million libel suit he filed in 1982 against CBS, over a story that said he misled the White...
...Filipino Linguists In "Real Returns," TIME's William Green described his experiences as an investor in a small company that operates an English-speaking customer-service telephone call center in Manila [July 4]. Green was surprised by the employees' ability to approximate an American accent after taking only a short "accent neutralization" course. It should not have startled him, since the phone agents were all college graduates who lack opportunities to demonstrate their competencies. We Filipinos have an innate ability to mimic foreign accents, which might be because most of us are interested in knowing other languages besides...
...pour into China from speculators looking to profit from additional yuan gains, undoing Beijing's efforts to curtail excessive spending and lending in overheating sectors of the economy such as real estate. Also, if the yuan goes up by 10%, "you start to worry about China's competitiveness," says William Fung, managing director of Li & Fung, a Hong Kong trading group that arranges for overseas buyers to manufacture products in Chinese factories. Companies from India to Mexico, which in recent years have struggled to compete with China's low costs and high efficiency, could start to claim new business, says...
...reported to Captain [William S.] Parsons. I was essentially his assistant. When I was not at Los Alamos, I was frequently troubleshooting for Capt. Parsons in Washington. When it came time to select a base for the 509th group, they sent me out to stake some ground in the Pacific. I was sent out to Admiral [Chester] Nimitz's headquarters to make this selection. That was in February 1945. I was given a letter that told Admiral Nimitz, who was located in Guam at the time, that there was being developed an atomic bomb, which would be in his area...