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Two task forces on women, formed in the wake of faculty criticism over University President Lawrence H. Summers’ January remarks on women in science, recommended the creation of the post. The work of those task forces, one of which was chaired by Hammonds, also led to a $50...
Hyman said he approached Hammonds about the position earlier this summer, following Commencement, after listening to suggestions from an advisory committee he formed from the May recommendations of the task forces on women.
The dispute was born of good intentions. In 1994, when China produced more oil than it consumed, Beijing allowed county governments in Shaanxi to drill for oil in an effort to alleviate chronic poverty. The counties sold mineral rights to citizens for around $10,000 per square kilometer. Entire villages...
The rest of the world, watching the increasingly repressive and radical state Pakistan was becoming, formed a negative impression of the country. This will not be easy to dispel because it is partly based on reality. Changing the image will take time. But it can happen, because Pakistan is itself...
Meanwhile, her awareness of real-world politics and her sense that the court shouldn't diverge too sharply from popular opinion were especially apparent in O'Connor's death-penalty votes. In 1989 she wrote the majority opinion allowing capital punishment of the mentally retarded, saying a "national consensus" that...