Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mathews' July 30 article on the charitable donations missing from "Evening with Champions," he includes a paragraph referring to, of all things, Ad Board procedures for rape cases. The paragraph is wrong, and I would like to correct the information for your readers and our students...
...sure why The Crimson felt that a (wrong) reference to rape policy belonged in a story about a possible embezzlement; however, I am glad to take this opportunity to correct the mistaken information The Crimson had, and its readers may have picked up from the story. Virginia L. Mackay-Smith Assistant Dean of Harvard College for Coeducation, and Secretary to the Administrative Board...
...harder than diamond, considered the hardest substance on earth. The new synthetic material is a blend of carbon and nitrogen (diamond is all carbon), and if the researchers can make a chunk big enough and pure enough to test, they'll be able to see whether the theory is correct...
...film, directed by veteran TV producer Linda Yellen, grew out of improvisations at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, so a wary male critic is at least prepared for the film's politically correct earnestness. One of the group, Natalie (JoBeth Williams), is a movie critic who raises money to make a film about homeless women. Another, Maggie (Talia Shire), is a nun who faces a spiritual crisis after she helps a woman get an abortion. There are lesbian revelations, a discussion of the Anita Hill hearings and rampant man bashing. Rheza (Lindsay Crouse) has been dumped by her husband...
President Clinton's choice to head the National Endowment for the Humanities, Sheldon Hackney, the president of the University of Pennsylvania, received unanimous support from a Senate committee last week, and his nomination now goes to the full Senate. In hearings, Hackney was mostly questioned about his politically correct policies. Only one Senator asked him about his administration's admitted misspending of nearly $1 million in federal grants earmarked for academic research. Some of the uses for the money...