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...fifth annual Center for Public Leadership’s (CPL) Leadership Conference attracted female leaders and scholars from across the country to discuss issues facing women in positions in politics, academia, and business this week-end. Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) hosted “Leadership 2006” from March 8 to 11, which included a keynote speech by University President Lawrence H. Summers, who spoke on the importance of women’s leadership. However, at the well-attended “Women in Science” panel on Friday, chaired...
...tinderbox region around Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, the centuries-old code of Pashtunwali is supposed to protect peaceful visitors from harm. So when a four-man Canadian military-outreach team accompanied by Afghan army troops arrived March 4 in the village of Shinkay, 70 km north of Kandahar, to discuss construction projects with local elders, the soldiers felt comfortable removing their helmets. It was a near fatal mistake. They had barely settled down for a chat when a young man, shouting "Allahu akbar" ("God is great"), leapt to his feet and struck Canadian Forces Reserve Lieut. Trevor Greene...
...consequences that could stem from African-American elites abandoning inner-city areas. “The urban core will be thought of like reservations,” said Thomas. And—in much the same way that Americans who don’t live on reservations sometimes discuss vague ancestral ties to indigenous tribes—blacks who have left the inner-city will be talking about how much black blood they have,” he added. Evelynn M. Hammonds, a history of science professor who trained as a physicist and electrical engineer, said that...
...that University President Lawrence H. Summers is on his way out, one would hope that the secret meetings to determine the course of the curricular review and to discuss concerns about Summers would be things of the past. Instead, faculty members seem unable (or unwilling) to articulate their actual grievances with Summers or explain the motivation behind the HCCR. In lieu of clarity, we have closed door sessions; instead of open discussion of the troubles facing the Faculty, we have accusations of anti-Semitism...
...also convinced that all of the characters are flawed and capable of redemption, except for Janice. She can never be redeemed. And I’d love to discuss my reasons with you, in an academic or not-so-academic setting...