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Once the union citadel had been stormed, Thatcher quickly discovered that every area of the economy was open to judicious reform. Even as the rest of Europe toyed with socialism and state ownership, she set about privatizing the nationalized industries, which had been hitherto sacrosanct, no matter how inefficient. It worked. British Airways, an embarrassingly slovenly national carrier that very seldom showed a profit, was privatized and transformed into one of the world's best and most profitable airlines. British Steel, which lost more than a billion pounds in its final years as a state concern, became the largest steel...
...After a six-year battle, the school finally agreed to go co-ed when the Supreme Court ruled last year that any institution accepting federal tax dollars must consider female applicants. To prevent a repeat of the Citadel fiasco, in which several female cadets said they were abused by their male colleagues, VMI's top brass promised swift punishment for any male who gets out of line...
...half-time teacher, an amateur. It is the lifers who hold up the citadel, they who remain in the dusty stillness of the classrooms after the kids have tromped out. Amid the riot of The Nutty Professor, Eddie Murphy caught that look--all knowledgeable, all wistful, hopeless within his own superiority. Everything he makes vanishes except his size. As he chalks one line of an equation on the blackboard, his belly erases the other line. He is a visual fat joke. But he has something to teach them. He takes them seriously...
...this argument is too simplistic in this rather complex debate. Sure, semantically, Harvard University is a multicultural student center to the extent that there are students and they are of different backgrounds. But the same argument could be made of any place with students of varying heritage, including the Citadel or the Peruvian embassy, where intercultural understanding are not likely to take place...
CHARLESTON, South Carolina: Last month an embarrassed interim Citadel President R. Clifton Poole vowed to turn over to state authorities anyone found to be guilty of hazing former cadets Kim Messer and Jeanie Mentavlos. Friday he reversed course and said that charges by the two women that they were assaulted and sexually harassed will not hold up. "I think when we begin having these board hearings, the male cadets are going to deny a lot of these things. I think the male cadets are also going to have witnesses who are going to justify their denials." The Citadel head said...