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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's comments on the proposed Title IX regulations show that it is still unwilling to take bigger steps on its own. Until it can prove that it is, legislation will be necessary to force Harvard to abandon its position as a landmark in the history of discrimination against women...
Humane Paradigm. Arafat tried to distinguish his respect for the Jewish faith from his hatred of Zionism and appealed to his Jewish listeners to abandon the cause of Israel. "Let us remember that the Jews of Europe and the U.S. have been known to lead the struggles for secularism and the separation of church and state; they have also been known to fight against discrimination on religious grounds. How do they then refuse this humane paradigm for the Holy Land...
...work, the political and social orientations of the upwardly mobile begins to change even before they enter the higher strata--which is one of the reasons they do enter the higher strata. Except for the most unusual of an already unusual group, the upwardly mobile are eager to abandon their lower class orientations and, through a subtle process of cultural osmosis, come to completely identify with the new social environment they desire. As the Schoolboys of Barbiana would put it in their book "Letter to a Teacher": "...they are received like brothers by the rich and are soon rewarded with...
...study in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Elizabeth Reid discusses the effects of co-residential living at Harvard. In it, she says, "...both men and women [living in co-educational residences] test out their preconceived ideas of what is womanly or manly, and as a result they tend to abandon stereotyped notions. Because of the changes in the world this generation is trying to develop new styles of being men and women...Co-residential living offers many more contracts with both men and women than does the one-sex dormitory and therefore far more opportunity to consider these issues...
...erected a wall of experience between himself and Dukakis, and the tactic may have worked. The Boston Globe, which had never before endorsed a Republican for Governor, praised both men for their abilities last week, but concluded, "in these traumatic times the state should not abandon proven leadership...