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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Acknowledging this fact is difficult, but it is important for us to do so if we are going to make effective proposals. Since Jewett released the data on the makeup of the different houses, the debate among the house masters has shifted from whether to change to housing system to how much we should change the housing system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Non-Ordered Choice: Compromise, not Cave-In | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

Such broad categorization ignores a "bipolar" distribution of income and status among nationalities and language groups classified as "Asian-Americans," as well as between those of different education levels, Kiang said. Generalizations about Asian-American professional success can also obscure political or social barriers, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof Redefines Asian Status | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...image is arresting, perhaps too much so: a white hand and a black hand, both denim-clad and handcuffed together at the wrists. For Italy's Benetton, the ubiquitous purveyor of knitwear, the photo seemed ideal for its long- running ad campaign stressing harmony among the races. Ironically, the giant retailer now finds itself accused of racism. "Handcuffs do not convey brotherhood," says Donald Polk, president of the New York Urban League, which has been flooded with complaints about the ad from those who feel it depicts a black man under arrest. Says Vittorio Rava, Benetton's worldwide advertising head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Picture Imperfect? | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...essential for paying the family's bills, she says, her husband "expected the same as if I was a housewife. He told me that if I couldn't take care of the needs at home and have his food ready, I should quit." Instead Brown quit her marriage. Among the upper middle class, male rhetoric may sound enlightened, but the bottom line is much the same. In The Second Shift, a study of 50 mostly middle-class, two-career couples published this year, Arlie Hochschild, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, found that wives typically come home from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Onward, Women! | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

What a difference a few months make: South African Archbishop Tutu's candidacy for the Board of Overseers created quite a fuss among alumni last year, and both sides of the divestment issue took turns at dishing out the rhetoric. Robert P. Wolff '54, who directs the pro-divestment alumni group which nominated Tutu, often said Tutu's mere presence on the Board could force Harvard to divest completely from South Africa-related investments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

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