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...debate, a committee of feminist historians passed a grim resolution saying that "as feminist scholars we have a responsibility not to allow our scholarship to be used against the interests of women struggling for equity in our society." That wording would seem to say that truth must take a backseat to feminist interests, but supporters deny this interpretation. They point to an accompanying resolution that reads, "We believe that as scholars we may have many differing interpretations of the sources in women's history, and we reject the claims of anyone to be representing a 'true interpretation' of women...
...call home. "I had no money and needed a place to sleep, so I'd ride the Third Avenue bus up to the Bronx, cross the street and ride back down to the Battery. Thanks to the transit authority, I was warm and toasty if I took a backseat, and I felt cloaked and protected by all the people...
...office he frequently wheels around in a swivel chair to pluck a fact or figure from the IBM PC AT perched behind his big wooden desk. In the backseat of his chauffeured sedan, he taps away on the keyboard of a notebook-size Hewlett-Packard, stopping only when a sharp turn sends the little computer sliding off his knees. At home in bed, he parks the portable computer on his ample lap and reviews financial statistics, occasionally looking up to watch Ted Koppel on ABC's Nightline...
Sitting in the backseat of a U.S. marshal's car, Ronald Pelton betrayed little emotion last week as he arrived for the start of his espionage trial in a Baltimore courthouse. For 14 years, Pelton worked in a low-level computer job at the top secret National Security Agency. He had a knowledge of Russian, access to sensitive intelligence data and, in later years, money troubles. After Pelton left the NSA in 1979, according to federal authorities, he started selling information to the Soviets. Accused spies like Pelton have been a cause of growing concern to the U.S. intelligence community...
...read in the Russian and Georgian classics and has even scribbled a bit of lyric poetry. Shevardnadze and his wife Nanuli, a journalist, have a daughter Manana, in her 30s, and a son Paata, in his late 20s, but as Nanuli once confided to Borodin, family life takes a backseat to her husband's work. "He's a true Leninist," she said of Eduard Shevardnadze, "a dedicated Communist...