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...June 13 report, which deals broadly with issues of faculty diversity, is the first to be publicly released by Hammonds’ office. Her office was established almost one year ago at the recommendation of two task forces on women created in the wake of outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers’ Jan. remarks on the dearth of female professors in the sciences...
MIT’s Amgen, Inc. Professor of Biology Nancy Hopkins ’64, who has led numerous task forces at MIT that studied and publicized the challenges facing female academics at major universities, said that the survey may be biased towards some concerns among junior faculty and overlook broader problems faced by women at all levels of academia...
...crisis in Only Human, which is that movie rarity, a truly great farce, is innocently precipitated by the always helpful Rafi. He's given a kitchen task - decanting and defrosting a huge block of frozen soup. Somehow it slips out of his hands and sails out a window, where it lands on a passerby who may be the absent father and may be dead as a result of the accident. Neither his identity nor his fate can at first be fully determined, for by the time the ambulance arrives, the victim has disappeared. In any case, the family is less...
...think it's important for them to make the gesture," said Elizabeth Cusack, whose son, John Cusack, serves on the Harvard-Allston Task Force appointed by Menino. "And I think it will help in the future...
...Inheriting Zarqawi's mantle will be no easy task. His influence extended well beyond the relatively few bloodthirsty fighters he commanded. His willingness to fight on the front lines, his prowess with propaganda tools like Internet videos, and his ability to mobilize massive numbers of suicide bombers had elevated Zarqawi to the level of celebrity. He was successful at directing insurgent attacks against Shi'ites and initiating a controversial plan to sow sectarian strife in Iraq...