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...game is spreading to charities with no particular root in the gay community. Last fall, the Young Professionals Network of the Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center raised $8,000 running drag queen bingo. "We're trying to get younger people involved, the 20- and 30-something-year-olds," says Kathryn Buckley, development coordinator of the Englewood, Colo. center. "A lot of us can't afford to do the big black-tie dinners and golf tournaments, and this is just so much...
...without any remorse, even after a year and a half. Pointing out France's difficulties probably attracts more readers, but what about the country's success? Raphael F. Rousseau, LYON, FRANCE Congratulations on your insightful piece. While I fully agree with your analysis of why young French people in particular leave their country in order to find better career prospects elsewhere, one must not lose sight of two facts: tens of thousands of British people, including myself, have come to France to settle down in their retirement, and France remains the No. 1 tourist destination in Europe. In other words...
...meeting with leaders of Asian Pacific American student groups at the Charles Hotel, the Harvard Business School alum invoked her own biography while urging Asian Americans to embrace their cultural identity and its emphasis on achievement. “I never felt that I was at any particular disadvantage,” Chao said. President Bush appointed Chao labor secretary in 2001, making her the first Asian-American woman to serve in a President’s cabinet. In a brief question-and-answer session, Chao said repeatedly that students should be confident and not dwell on discrimination...
...into the General Education program is unclear. Including the study of history appears to have partially transformed the original philosophy into the discipline-focused pedagogy it sought to replace.With a sizable number of faculty members still clamoring behind the scenes for further exceptions and inclusions of their own particular areas of expertise, and anemic implementing legislation that leaves many of the important details of implementation to the whims of an all-powerful standing committee, the new system threatens to suffer from the same forces of accretion that have watered down the Core. For better or worse, our august professorate cannot...
...natural sciences at FAS were women. Among them, a total of 14 had tenure.But colleagues familiar with Aizenberg’s work say that the invitation would have been extended regardless of her gender.“She is the world’s best at the particular kind of science she does, so she will make Harvard a world center just by being here,” says chemist George M. Whitesides ’60, the Flowers University Professor under whom Aizenberg studied in her earlier stint at Harvard. “She is someone we would recruit...