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...catalyst was an article in the February 1999 issue of Perspective featuring interviews with two Harvard victims of rape. The women spoke out about their experiences for the first time. One of the victims criticized Harvard for taking rape too lightly, since both of the victims' alleged attackers--Joshua M. Elster and D. Drew Douglas, both Class of 2000--had not been expelled from Harvard. This revelation sparked the coalition to action...
There were hints of this financial confidence when despite the endowment's summertime $1.3 billion plunge, administrators continued to implement long awaited--and expensive--changes. According to some officials, the market ills spurred by the Asian financial crisis even served as a catalyst, proving that Harvard could survive financial downturns...
...with this in mind that the University of Michigan, together with Catalyst, a nonprofit research and advisory organization that focuses on advancing women in business, teamed up to find out why talented women aren't pursuing M.B.A.s. The study, sponsored by 13 companies including Kraft, Citicorp and Deloitte & Touche, is still in the data-gathering stage, with results expected in early 2000. But its organizers have some theories of their own, as do plenty of women who have M.B.A.s, are in school or have decided against the degree...
...have begun in April 1998, but no one has yet been able to pinpoint what set it off. It was a tense time at Columbine, with fights brewing between jocks and skateboarders, jocks and Goths, and nearly everyone picking on the guys in the trench coats. Whatever the catalyst, the spring of that year marked a last turning point for Harris. The rage he had displayed on his website didn't abate, but it did go underground, as he honed his ability to fool authority figures, especially parents. "I'd say his parents were in denial, but the truth...
...largest minority population; in 1895, for example, every district of Turkish Armenia was subject to systematic pogroms that resulted in the murder of hundreds of thousands of Armenians, demands to renounce their faith and looting and burning of their villages and businesses. The 1915 event served as a catalyst for what statesmen and humanitarians have referred to as the blackest page in modern history. Between 1915 and 1918, 1.5 million Armenians (60 percent of the population) were taken from their historical homeland and marched into the deserts of Syria, where they were beaten, raped, starved, tortured and murdered according...