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...entirely. Women undergraduates would sacrifice forever the advantages of attending a college vitally attuned to their concerns and expressly designed to answer their needs; alumnae would sacrifice forever inclusion in that community of women, which given the intransigent realities of modern sexual politics, can alone provide them with a bulwark and ongoing network of support in their lives beyond the University. These sacrifices are to be made with no return whatsoever (the Bunting Institute and the Schlesinger Library are already thriving entities); and they are to be made solely in order to allow Harvard to vaunt before the world...

Author: By Prudence Carlson, | Title: Standing Up For Radcliffe | 5/22/1998 | See Source »

...encouragement but no specific stage managing by local youth pastors. This afternoon its faculty adviser, a math teacher and Evangelical Free Church member named Sara Van Der Werf, sits silently for most of the meeting, although she takes part in the final embrace. The club serves as an emotional bulwark for members dealing with life at a school where two students died last year in off-campus gunfire. Today a club member requests prayer for "those people who got in that big fight [this morning]." Another asks the Lord to "bless the racial-reconciliation stuff." (Patrick Henry is multiethnic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spiriting Prayer Into School | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...online and find hundreds of checking accounts," says Condon. "Microsoft wants to sell more servers and software, not become a financial institution." But Gates could find the insular banking world a tough nut to crack. Well before MSFDC, the industry launched the software consortium Integrion as its bulwark against territorial infringement. Today Integrion competes with MSFDC even as it licenses Microsoft Money. Microsoft, meanwhile, plays the good citizen, agreeing to abide by the E-commerce software platform that an industry group will release this August. For now, at least, it looks like everyone can just get along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Bank Of Redmond | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...didn't say it that way, of course. Instead she writes in the second paragraph, "[I]f the President had behaved with comparable insensitivity toward environmentalists, and at the same time remained their most crucial champion and bulwark against an anti-environmental Congress, would they be expected to desert him? I don't think...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: The Whore Principle | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

From the archaeological point of view, documentation helps to provide a bulwark against the practice of looting...

Author: By Stephanie K. Clifford, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Art Museums Involved in Documentation Controversy | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

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