Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lebanon (pop. 3 million), once a lovely oasis of fine beaches, snowcapped mountains and cosmopolitan culture, may be in its death throes. Its brutal civil war, which began 14 years ago this week, shows no sign of ending. Since March 8 the heaviest bombardments in four years have killed 177 and wounded 591. Equally devastating, men, women and children are suffering mental breakdowns from the protracted, indiscriminate terror...
...brass! When she had the nerve to try to become a practicing attorney, Myra Bradwell was rebuked by no less a body than the U.S. Supreme Court. "The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life," wrote Justice Joseph Bradley in an 1873 opinion. A century later, the unseemly became ordinary as women, riding a new wave of feminism, swept through the nation's law schools. In the U.S. today, more than 40% of law students and 20% of lawyers are women. As their numbers...
...program, however, has met some criticism, particularly from students and higher education officials. One major criticism suggests that the proposed shift in student aid allocations runs counter to the ideals established by the Civil Rights movement, which allowed everyone to have an equal opportunity to afford college. Daniel Baer concludes in a Crimson editorial that "the Nunn bill would do more to upset equality of educational opportunity than anything since Plessy v. Ferguson...
...timing of the March on Washington--sponsored by the National Organization for Women (NOW), the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Abortion Rights Action League--also coincides with campus plans...
Dunne, who coordinates women's issues for the Harvard Civil Liberties Union, says that she hopes that women's activism at Harvard will become more organized. The institution of a phone tree similar to one used by NOW in Boston to organize protesters when anti-abortion groups such as Operation Rescue come to town and the formation of a Harvard Students for Choice group are some of the possibilities to which she looks forward...