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...fallout from Summers’ remarks—and Hopkins’ now-notorious exit—the University created two task forces to investigate ways to further women’s pursuits in the sciences...
...much-heralded 1970s review took no less than 5 years to complete, and this review should have little trouble keeping up with that timetable. We have much to look forward to in the upcoming academic year, and it seems like the Harvard community is revving up for the task. The Faculty decided last month to up the number of Faculty meetings set to take place next year from nine to 14, ostensibly not in anticipation of another embroiling controversy to blow the curricular review off course yet again, but to provide some much needed time for consideration of this landmark...
Dallaire first arrived in Rwanda on August 19, 1993, for a 12-day fact finding mission. He returned for a longer stay in October of that year, at which point he began the difficult task of advancing a peace between the Hutu-controlled Rwandan Government Forces (RGF) and the Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front...
...fact, even when given the chance to speak about what she has done during the past 25 years—a task prone to self-aggrandizement—Hsia, a mother of one, displays humility, freely abasing herself and hesitating to accept credit for her ambition and accomplishments...
...undergraduate who balanced being a student and a mother while at Harvard, wrote that it was difficult for individual women to find a niche at Harvard because as the men’s college took on the responsibility for educating women, it was slower to accept the task of serving the unique needs of women...