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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Women are under-represented in business, trade, government and countless other sectors. Opportunities such as the Radcliffe Externship program, the Radcliffe Publishing course and scholarships for women all aim to redress the imbalance. Opening Radcliffe's programs to men would render their purpose moot...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: Save Single-Sex Programs | 2/11/1994 | See Source »

First-years also supported Dean Nathans' aim ofencouraging students to become more computerliterate...

Author: By Allyson V. Hobbs, | Title: Yard Bulletin Goes Electric | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

...said, 'I have a feeling the women inthis department are a lot unhappier than themen,"' the graduate student adds. "One woman saidshe filed a sexual harassment charge last year.Another said that Dean Gill had told her she had alist of charges [in the anthropology department]as long as her aim...

Author: By Jonathan A. Lewin, | Title: Allegations Divide Wing | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...media must, and usually does, take aim at every public figure; even during the Republican administration Democrats like Jim Wright and Tony Coelho underwent career-ending inquiries...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Press Is Unfairly Lynched | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...quality of the collection varies a great deal. Next to these delightful works hang the frumpy Still Life with Pineapple (1833) by Jensen, a hackneyed anecdotal painting by Marstand, and the slightly pat impressionism of the Anchers. These uninspiring works do not undermine the exhibition, because it aims precisely to illustrate the tenor of Danish art in the nineteenth century, even through its less inspirational phases. However, such an aim does not provide sufficient focus for an exhibit, even on a relatively modest scale. The collection appears electric, a higgledy-piggledy romp through an era of artistic flux and diversity...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: Not So Great Danes | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

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