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...well she performs on the job. Likewise, in the case of this t-shirt, by suggesting that women make better CEOs, WIB is opening up the door for judgment on the basis of gender. This is exactly the sort of mistake forward-thinking social activists have been working to correct for the past several decades. Moreover, the notion that gender should be a contributing factor to career success paves the way for some really terrible workplace happenings. Sexual harassment suits, for instance, are usually a result of gender tensions or inequities...
...Campus progressives chafe at the idea of rabble-rousing, controversial, and inflammatory events staged to criticize politically-correct excesses. Bigots like Ahmadinejad do little harm—few American college students share his opinions, and he already lacks credibility in most people’s eyes. But firebrands like Horowitz who bring legitimate—if often overblown and rhetorically inappropriate—criticisms to bear against the academic left pose a much greater threat: to expose to more observers the shaky foundations upon which most postmodern prejudices are bulwarked...
...Showers are predicted in Ithaca for tomorrow, and a slippery Schoellkopf Field is good news for the Red.Prediction: Cornell 25, Brown 17DARTMOUTH (1-4, 1-1) VS. COLUMBIA (1-4, 0-2)The dregs of the conference, even though Dartmouth could conceivably—if the previous picks are correct, at least—move into a third-place jumble with a win. What the heck? All the cool kids are going Green these days anyway.Prediction: Dartmouth 31, Columbia 17Record to Date: 27-6—Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...
...extremely skeptical that she has been placed by foreign powers,” he said, adding that Bhutto has garnered the support of Washington and London. Rizvi said that Musharraf’s emphasis on the military has led to an imbalance of power that will be challenging to correct. “Her crucial test will be to restore the democratic process in a meaningful way, curb the political power of the military, and focus on social issues like education, the environment, civil society, and health care,” he said. Saba Z. Zaidi...
...grammatically correct, but always good advice. And could somebody teach Latin to Britney...