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...early October, 35 male Harvard students were initiated into Sigma Alpha Mu, a traditionally Jewish fraternity that disbanded at Harvard more than 50 years ago. About two weeks after the re-emergence of "Sammy," 17 more male undergraduates formed a provisional chapter of the Eta Sigma Chi fraternity. And two weeks ago, about 60 female students announced that they wanted to form a non-exclusive women's club...
...When Eastern's pilots and flight attendants walked out in support of striking machinists last March, they helped force the airline into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Their hopes that the U.S. bankruptcy court would impose an acceptable settlement were dashed as the Chapter 11 proceedings dragged on and Eastern hired new nonunion workers to replace the strikers. Last week the pilots and flight attendants gave up. The machinists still pin their hopes on the court...
...first time in their lives. Among them was Emily Friedan, 33, a Buffalo pediatrician and Betty Friedan's daughter. "For 25 years I have rarely appeared with my mom. This April I marched with her because of the abortion issue," says Friedan, who has organized a local chapter of Physicians for Choice. The abortion issue has helped galvanize college-age women -- and men -- out of their political inertia. Alexandra Stanton, 20, took a year's leave from Cornell to launch Students Organizing Students, an activist group devoted to protecting reproductive rights. SOS has already launched chapters on 100 college campuses...
...domestic priority might sound like a chapter out of the Republican platform. But there is a difference. I mean it and they...
With hindsight this passage seems chilling. An Exorcism was not included among the 25 works in The Stories of Bernard Malamud (1983). But it appears in this posthumous collection, along with The People, a novel interrupted in its 17th chapter by Malamud's death...