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...urging one of Harvard's oldest and most colorful institutions to change its charter, the staff assumes a posture that has received little support from the campus at large. People have seemed to enjoy the annual Hasty Pudding show for years--both men and women alike--and we think that including women in the cast would diminish its unique draw...
Through a loophole in the Hasty Pudding charter, women can audition for the traditionally all-male cast. But it's a bit like auditioning to a wall. Regardless of how good Winsome Brown is, how well she played either male or female parts, she won't be allowed to perform in the cast, simply because she is female...
...They can try out, but it is in the charter that they cannot be members of the cast," he said...
...interim constitution, which puts in place a government of national unity for the next five years, will not fulfill its promise of a reasonable balance of power to those who distrust Mandela and the A.N.C. De Klerk called the draft "a product of compromise" that could be either "a charter for peace" or "a prescription for powermongering." Ominously, the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party and several white separatist groups -- which have rejected the negotiations, threatened to boycott the elections and even hinted at armed resistance -- stayed away from the signing. They continue to insist that regions with strong ethnic composition...
South Africa's white minority government and black political leaders approved a new constitution that ends apartheid. The 142-page document, two years in the writing, guarantees freedom of speech, movement and political activity for all citizens. The charter also provides for transitional quasi-legislative bodies to oversee national elections next April 27, the first in which blacks, who constitute 75% of the population, will be permitted to vote...