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...Lawrence H. Summers told the National Bureau of Economic Research that “issues of intrinsic aptitude” might explain the dearth of female scientists at Harvard and throughout higher education.Summers’ comments, which Skocpol called “the presidential speech heard around the world?? in her April comments to Appleton Chapel, triggered the well-known firestorm of criticism. Soon after, Skocpol built a reputation as one of Summers’ most vociferous critics. “When things do not go well, the president always seeks to blame and humiliate others...
...that well-known author Melissa E. Scott ’81 fell into science-fiction writing.Scott first encountered the genre after a gym-class incident that left her with a broken arm and a gig as a library monitor. “I’m not the world??s most coordinated human being,” she says. A precocious child who learned to read at three, Scott recounts becoming immersed in thrillers while at the library. “From then on, I was pretty much hooked,” Scott says. Scott, a native...
...It’s a unique hiring opportunity for Donald Trump if she’s lucky enough to win.”Although the cast is balanced by gender, Ruggiero is indeed familiar with competing in male-dominated environments such as the boardroom. The consensus world??s best female defenseman, standing at 5’10, made ice hockey history in January 2005 when she skated in a game with the Tulsa Oilers of the Central Hockey League alongside her brother Bill, the squad’s goalie, making her the first non-netminding woman...
...than in the 1950s, but the problem was never really “solved.” A combination of factors—including the rising costs of car ownership, improved public transportation, and a student body drawn increasingly from all over the country and all over the world??combined to make Elder’s fear a reality, and finally took the wheels out from under the Harvard man.—Staff writer M. Aidan Kelly can be reached at makelly@fas.harvard.edu...
...terrorist’s target than the U.S. The fingerprinting law, however, also raises many serious concerns, though slightly different from those surrounding U.S. homeland security laws. While the US law reflects security considerations of a global superpower that has (unduly) made itself a lightening rod to the world??s—and especially the Arab world??s—malcontents, such a measure has an entirely different meaning in Japan. Ostensibly focused only on terrorism, in Japan the law is really about xenophobia. An ethnically homogeneous island-country that has been virtually cut off from...