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...taking place.Instead, Harvard faces the less expensive—but more time-consuming—task of developing a culture that focuses on diversity in the tenure process and mentorship opportunities for female faculty members.“Harvard is drastically behind a lot of other institutions. The danger, I think, is, because the problem is deep and historical, hiring five more senior people in any of the schools won’t really help,” says Lamont, who serves on the committee within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that is coordinating efforts with the Office...
...account of a climber’s experience in the deadliest season for Mount Everest.The current season marked the second deadliest ever after the one chronicled by Krakauer, with 10 climbers confirmed dead so far.But to Osborne, the greatest challenge was not the physical danger, but the mental discipline.“You must train your body to climb for 20 hours with an 80lb pack, but harder is to have the mental strength to turn around half an hour below a summit,” Osborne wrote on his website before the climb.And Osborne showed the same perspective after...
...used to joke that, if you were traveling with Nick, you wanted to stay very close with him, because danger was always a short distance away,” Grafstein says. “He just has this incredible knack for being close to incredible news stories...
...senior spring. Instead, he was describing his focus at the plate at the most important juncture in the baseball season. During the regular season-ending doubleheader against the Big Green, with Harvard’s season—and Klimkiewicz’s career—in danger of ending, the powerful righty reached base in eight of ten plate appearances, going 6-for-8, getting beaned twice, driving in four runs, scoring five, and hitting a moonshot home run. All year long, Klimkiewicz was the critical cog in the middle of the Crimson order and an imposing presence...
Money is only one of his problems. The Friday trips to Najaf are fraught with danger. The road from Baghdad runs through some of the most lawless parts of Iraq, where criminals routinely kill commuters to take their cars and terrorists have been known to attack funeral corteges. Sheik Jamal says his weekly convoy--one truck and several carloads of volunteers--has never been attacked, a fact he attributes to divine intervention. "It's God's work, and he finds a way for us to do it," he says...