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Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers has lessons to learn about tact and diplomacy, but his job should not be on the line for comments he made about the intelligence of women. Read more...

For whatever it’s worth, the Kyoto Protocol is now in effect, albeit without the United States, India or China onboard. When President Bush rejected the treaty in 2001, he cited the failure of the plan to include developing world polluters, such as China, as the main reason for not signing it. Read more...

Hey, did you hear the one about the Republican shill suspected of being a gay prostitute who snuck into the White House every day for two years pretending to be a journalist? Read more...

San Francisco may get subway system SAN FRANCISCO “”mdash; Plans are moving forward to create a $1 billion subway system that would connect several of San Francisco’s most popular and heavily trafficked neighborhoods. Read more...

An effort to diversify UCLA’s faculty entered its third year this week, with supporters saying that talking to university administrators is like communicating with a stone wall. Read more...

When California’s K-12 education system’s test scores recently ranked near rock-bottom above only Mississippi and Louisiana, most agreed the schools must be improved. Accountability has become the key word, but the reformers must look at more than standardized test scores. Read more...