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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Science" (Science and Technology, Feb. 10): You did a good job of presenting a complicated issue. As a former two-term chair of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Women in Science and Engineering, however, I feel it is necessary to put this subject in a more comprehensive context...
...join BGLTSA because we desire same-sex sexual interaction. The goal of the organization, then, is to legitimize homoerotic desire in the context of mainstream American society...
...daring enough to be self-reflective. For many men, this will require seeing women's humanness, especially in a sexual context, as vividly as we see our own. It will require noticing and confronting the sexist and rape-conducive distortions of women as they're being fed to us. At the very least, we owe it to the brave Harvard women who have so silently picked up the pieces from their experiences and put their lives back together. And at the very least, we owe it to the women who, before the year is over, will have their lives torn...
...events may be obscure, but they are nonetheless fascinating. Lee dismisses luge and biatholon as "stupid," and for not making any sense. I ask him how much sense football makes. The biatholon at least arises from the context of hunting during icy conditions. And many of the Winter Olympic events, while not as flashy as some of the sports Americans are accustomed to, are very technical and difficult to master. How many of us could negotiate a luge course without getting killed...
According to the Crimson Key Guide, next year's graduating class will be eight percent African American, an impressive figure when viewed in historical context...