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RIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, ELAYNE BENNETT, HEAD OF BEST Friends, an organization that encourages schoolgirls to forgo sex, reached into her purse and found a piece of paper that board member Alma Powell had slipped in there a few days before. It turned out to be a check from General Colin Powell providing the major portion of matching funds for a $200,000 challenge grant. "I couldn't believe it, and I almost lost it," confesses Bennett. "Alma gave it to me with so little fanfare...
...there are those who argue that, out of a sense of brotherhood, Harvard should memorialize the deaths in battle of all those who call her alma mater. The day we adopt this policy, however, is the day history loses all meaning for us. At its core, a memorial is a powerful, dramatic way of telling a story. It should extract a moral from history, one that assigns meaning the past. If Harvard memorializes those who fought for both sides during the Civil War, what possible moral or meaning can this watershed event retain...
...giving official recognition to Taiwan, which Beijing considers a mere renegade province. Indeed, China protested Washington's move, but analysts here note that Beijing's reaction was in fact quite mild compared to its vehement outrage over the visit of Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui to his American alma mater last June. Beijing's reprisal then included the expulsion last August of two American air force officers who had been monitoring Chinese military operations in southern Fujian province...
...course, class limitations still play an active role in courtship games. At times, watching this Pride and Prejudice is not unlike reading the wedding pages of the Sunday New York Times, always a banquet of telling socioeconomic detail (alma maters, parents' occupations). You remember that most people travel in small orbits and that the chauffeur's daughter doesn't marry Harrison Ford. That's Austen: romantic comedy with a bracing slap of social truth...
...business. Punches willingly endure the shame of the punch, and that says as much about their psychological weaknesses as it does about those of their friends. People can associate with whomever they like, and they can do that just as well on the basis of their athletic ties, their alma mater, or their maleness. The only real distinction between final clubs and social cliques is that the final clubs charge dues--and women are relegated to a subordinate role. But if the women who frequent the clubs are really unsatisfied with the situation, they could improve their station by simply...