Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While many have applauded a deal that has at last made women full partners with men at Harvard, others have wondered if Harvard can respond to undergraduate women's special needs now that Radcliffe has abdicated all responsibility...
...final deal about to be signed is silent on many of the issues that most closely affect undergraduates. There is no assurance that RUS will continue, as many students and alumnae had hoped, and administrators and lawyers will continue to debate the future of many of Radcliffe's prizes and fellowships in the coming months...
...possible that the sidelined President, in an effort to make his political talents useful, thought he was actually helping his wife by offering the clemency deal in the first place; the White House never really produced a convincing explanation why Clinton acted now on such a long-standing question, particularly over the unanimous objection of federal law-enforcement agencies...
Assassins' authors, whose end-times shoot-'em-ups have spawned a website and a movie deal and earned them millions of dollars, prefer to view their books' appeal in less secular terms. "People," says LaHaye, "are beginning to realize that something in this world is happening that has never happened before. The technology is going out of sight, one-world mania seems to be gripping the world." A self-described "prophecy scholar" and minister for more than 50 years, LaHaye, 73, concerns himself less with the books' prose than with their biblical underpinnings, turning ancient references to plagues and famines...
...that political candidates' "listening tours" seem to have elements of a sham, but I think Ferguson exaggerates a bit. In times past, politicians were criticized for their detachment from their constituencies. In an age when it has become easier to travel and communicate, it's necessary for candidates to deal directly with the voters--not just to get ideas but also to find out what some of America's problems and needs are. LARRY SCHOOLER New Haven, Conn...