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...anti-Russian plot by the cia acting through democracy-promoting ngos. Should Ukraine go further by applying to join nato, Russia could apply crippling economic sanctions, including cutting off energy supplies or blocking trade. The ice age that would descend is suggested by the withering view a bipartisan task force for the U.S.-based Council on Foreign Relations recently took of what Russia has already done in Ukraine: "A country that has in the space of a single year supported massive fraud in the elections of its largest European neighbor and then punished it for voting wrong by turning...
...narrow focus fully addressed the problems contributing to a dearth of women in Harvard’s senior ranks.The report, which deals broadly with issues of faculty diversity, is the first to be publicly released by Hammonds’ office, established last July at the recommendation of two task forces on women. The forces were created in the uproar following outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers’ Jan. remarks about the “intrinsic aptitude” of women for science.Hammonds said the childcare initiatives are intended to seal the “leaky pipeline” present...
Ogletree has been active in examining the role of signing statements over the past month, serving on the American Bar Association’s task-force that convened to investigate the issue. Other members of that committee include Yale Law School Dean Harold H. Koh ’75, who sits on the Harvard Board of Overseers, and Kathleen M. Sullivan, a former Harvard Law professor who was later dean at Stanford...
...wealthy, prestigious, and hard-working. Of course, I may be guilty of embracing the psychology of PBS children’s programs too much, that you should always do what you love and enjoy, and everything else will work out. Clearly, a person sometimes needs to complete an unpleasant task to get to a more enjoyable one, and even more clearly, many of my peers’ current internships will lead to immediate job offers. Still, I worry that many undergrads are just hurtling forward, filling their schedule with activities they are supposed to be doing, making their lives...
...committee faces the daunting task of reviving a wilting curricular review that has been widely criticizing for lacking a guiding vision and failing to generate much enthusiasm among professors...