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Using these suggestions, Lewis contacts many of the candidates himself--after all, "You don't want to appoint someone who they themselves is still tentative about it," he says--and listens to concerns from deans and senior Faculty members, some of whom request that a person not be considered to allow them to dedicate more time to their College duties...
Carol Thompson, Harvard's Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, was reported to have stated that Harvard does not have the same discrimination problems as MIT (News, March 23). How does Thompson know? The Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard (CEWH), an activist alumnae group, has repeatedly requested that Harvard produce a meaningful report on the status of women other than the federally mandated Affirmative Action plan. Harvard has ignored the request. The fact is that despite the occasional lawsuit or letter of protest by faculty women, no one at Harvard has been willing to investigate the possibility...
...This February, Fifteen Minutes received a mailing from the Department of State, U.S.A. Among the contents: a letter from Madeline K. Albright urging FM to educate readers about travel outside the U.S. At the request of the Secretary of State, FM reprints an official Department of State flyer. The document reads as follows...
...response from the participants has been overwhelmingly positive," Armini said, adding that Radcliffe has agreed to host a May reunion at the request of past participants...
Once at a restaurant, I thought I'd outsmart the staff and request no ice. The waitress asked me if I wanted her just to bring out the bottle. I leaped at the chance, and was flim-flammed again. The "bottle" was a Lilliputian eight ounces...