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Faust, a noted Civil War historian, co-chaired the Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering, which was formed in response to the outrage over Summers’ remarks...
...care for faculty members’ children, targeted recruitment of women and minority professors, and summer research opportunities for female as well as male undergraduates. A MOTHER OF INVENTION Faust, who attended Bryn Mawr College as an undergraduate before entering Penn’s graduate program in American civilization, will also be the first Harvard president since 1672 without a degree from this school. Until 2001, her academic career had been confined to Penn. She taught there ever since she received her Ph.D. in 1975 and she became the Annenberg professor of history in 1989. From...
...Americans. But black America's view of him is clouded by the facts that he is the son of an immigrant and that he was brought up mainly by middle-class whites whose culture is second nature to him. Although the Congressional Black Caucus, still strongly influenced by the civil rights generation, remains surprisingly liberal on immigration issues, the black middle class appears to harbor a hardening anti-immigrant sentiment--a Pew poll last year found that 54% of blacks see immigrants as a burden. More disturbing, however, is what that sentiment reveals about a growing pattern of self-segregation...
...gaffology is getting out of hand. An obviously unintended misstatement is significant only if you think the speaker has accidentally revealed something true about himself or herself. It ought to reinforce some pre-existing suspicion: Bush's Pentagon doesn't care about civil liberties, or Chirac is losing his marbles. One TV commentator, trying to explain his ginned-up outrage over Boxer, accused her of thinking that a black woman can't be Secretary of State without children--a form of prejudice so convoluted that I doubt anyone actually suffers from...
...devil-narrator and the Hitler family and ending the novel shortly after Adolf reaches adolescence.So the story goes something like this: a hellspawn is assigned to the Hitler family and follows an ambitious young man named Alois from his incestuous beginnings as a peasant to his rise in the civil government (complete with plenty of less-than-kosher sex) to his incestuous third marriage, which produced several children, including Adolf (known here as “Adi”). As the family—of which each member, with the notable exception of Adolf, is portrayed with remarkable clarity...