Word: demandingness
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At the New England Sloop Championships, Donahue and Strothman were just edged out by a very tough Tufts team for the final spot in the national championships. The Harvard team sailed the physically demanding sloop boat very well for the tournament. The sloop is new to collegiate competition, but usually...
A hefty haul for Republicans could help ensure impeachment. In July, when Speaker Newt Gingrich began privately predicting that his party would win 21 House seats--bringing his majority up to 32--even his staff laughed; it seems only marginally boastful now. As the impeachment debate was going on last...
Predictably, the renewed attention to girls has sparked a backlash. Parents are demanding that their sons be included in Take Our Daughters to Work Day. A surge of new books, such as Michael Gurian's A Fine Young Man and William Pollack's Real Boys, focuses on boys' emotional crises...
Are things as bad as some say? Or has the emotionally charged rhetoric used by gender-equity theorists overstated the problem? A report last March found no evidence that girls improve their academic performance or their emotional health in single-sex settings. What helps girls is what helps boys: smaller...
As a result, many Republicans are in anuncomfortable position, according to Frank, caughtbetween the public who want to let Clinton remainin office and the right who are "demanding hishead."