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...athletic attention on a certain sport played on flat fields. "In Italy, if it isn't called soccer, it's hard to get a lot of people interested," says Roberto Grissiotto, a Torino sales manager for an auto-safety manufacturer. This, added to a general Italian nonchalance, may help explain the lukewarm start to ticket sales: some 30% of the 1 million tickets were still available a week before the torch was to be lit. The city has had to tap public utility sponsors and hold a special national lottery to make up a $77 million shortfall resulting from cost...
Summers drew criticism last year for suggesting that “issues of intrinsic aptitude” might explain the under-representation of women on the science faculties of elite universities. But he has long argued that educating girls in the third world should be a top priority. In August 1992, he wrote a paper on the subject entitled, “The Most Influential Investment,” for Scientific American. —Staff writer Nicholas M. Ciarelli can be reached at ciarelli@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu...
...Davos Diary," by The Financial Times "A year after he was embroiled in a row over his musings that biological differences might explain a paucity of senior women scientists, Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard University, yesterday pointed out that for every 100 male US college graduates there were 130 women. He omitted to say whether he thought this was possibly caused by the biological superiority of women...
...fidgety audience when he finally ended the marathon lunchtime event by saying he had to get home in time for a dinner. Facing proliferating questions about whether he had gone too far with the surveillance and whether he has lost control of operations in Iraq, Bush seemed eager to explain himself. At length. In a clip sure to delight the likes of Jon Stewart, Bush said that his job description of President would be "a decision maker-I make a lot of decisions...
...McClellan told reporters Friday: "We are stepping up our efforts to educate the American people about this vital tool in the war on terrorism ahead of the congressional hearing." House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California said after Bush's speech that he "missed a critical opportunity today to explain why, more than four years after the 9/11 attacks, the American people are not as safe as they should...