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Finally, I would like to inform Mr. Wise that the only annoyance caused by your writing was caused by the ignorance you displayed. The use of he or she when the sex of the person whom one is talking about is unknown doesn't bother me in the least. As a matter of fact I have used this form since early in elementary school, long before I knew that sexism existed and that the exclusive use of the "he" pronoun was a part of that. The non-sexist use of language came naturally to me. I have to think...
...into remote areas. Sharing the soldiers' lot, Lopez has slept on the ground, in the back of an East German military truck and in insect- infested peasant huts. "Most recently," she says, "I stayed in a hotel with walls so thin you could see through them. That didn't bother the bats, which squeaked and dive-bombed my cot from the rafters all night long." Other TIME correspondents and editors have reported on Nicaragua's civil war from both sides. For this week's stories, Mexico City Bureau Chief Harry Kelly and Washington Correspondent David Halevy visited with both...
...bizarre outcome was skewed, in part, by the Chicago races, where Mayor Harold Washington campaigned against the regular Democratic ticket (see box). In the statewide contests, regular Democrats were too cocky; Stevenson did not bother to campaign for his running mates, assuming, like everyone else, that they would be ushered in on his coattails...
...would bother me if Harvard held it against me," she said. "I want to go to Harvard, but I don't want them to tell me what to do for the rest of my life," she added...
...doing simply do not have the right to criticize its ineffectiveness, let alone laugh at its blunders. If the council is inefficient and lacks direction, it is largely the fault of a humiliatingly complacent and apathetic student body that would rather watch a sit-com on Channel 4 than bother to participate in improving student life...