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...meeting two weeks ago, Summers promised to offer “a few observations” at the next session. The comment seemed ominous to some professors.But after the president concluded his speech—“I urge you to join together with purpose for the large task before you and wish you much joy and success in your pursuit”—the Faculty burst into extended applause. While some professors offered just a few short claps, one of the Faculty members who applauded longest was J. Lorand Matory ’82, the professor...
From the 1971 Bynum-Walzer Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, to the two task force reports in 2005, the message has always been the same: “limited progress” for women faculty at Harvard...
...Search Committee must examine closely a presidential candidate’s commitment to the implementation of the 2005 Task Forces Reports on Women Faculty. In addition, the Search Committee should be sure to inquire about plans for future action and examination of all matters bearing on gender equity throughout the University...
Sittenfeld's relationship with chick lit has never been quite comfortable--but in a way, chick lit has never been totally comfortable with itself. As a genre it sets itself the task of chronicling the (literarily underserved) lives of contemporary single women--but then, all too often, it suffers a failure of nerve and settles for regurgitating exactly the clichs about boys and shopping and cattiness that it should be rectifying. "I almost feel like the premises of plenty of chick-lit books are ones that I would love to read!" Sittenfeld says, exasperated. "It's almost like they...
Turning Reebok (2005 sales: $3.8 billion) around is a daunting task, one that some feel Adidas shouldn't have taken on. "Reebok is a brand you can probably develop, but it's going to cost time, and it's going to cost money," says Joerg-Philipp Frey, an analyst at Bank Sal. Oppenheim in Frankfurt. "Why should Adidas have to do that? They're better off concentrating on their own brand." To Adidas' Stamminger, two brands offer more leverage than one. Reebok also gives Adidas another weapon that Nike has to fend off. "There's a potential in this market...