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...Public women in America are wedged between two choices: present yourself in a gender-neutral or slightly 'masculine' way to be taken seriously ('substance'), or deploy your sexuality and charm ('the cunning of woman') to get ahead, but at the cost of not being taken seriously," Song wrote in that introspective piece...
...pleased to see that the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is taking constructive steps to improve campus security. The police are preparing to deploy officers on bicycles and are working to improve visibility on all shifts. The police have also established a substation in Weld Hall and have invited police officers and security guards to eat in the dining halls in order to establish better relationships with undergraduates...
...this point China lacks the military capability to bring off a successful invasion of a well-defended Taiwan. Even if the Chinese had the amphibious equipment needed to move large numbers of troops across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait, U.S. military experts estimate that Beijing would have to deploy half a million men for a victorious assault and that casualties would be in the range of 50%. True, China could seriously damage Taiwan's economy with a naval blockade or sporadic missile strikes, but it would also suffer by losing foreign support, particularly the substantial Taiwanese investment on the mainland...
President Clinton said he would sign a compromise $265 billion defense authorization bill. Congressional Republicans dropped their insistence on building a Star Wars-type missile-defense system and on restricting the President's authority to deploy troops. For his part, Clinton acceded to increased arms spending, a ban on abortions at overseas military hospitals, and the discharge of personnel testing positive for the aids virus. The measure provides for a 2.4% military pay raise. In a separate action, the Senate ratified the 1993 start ii treaty with Russia, which calls for dramatic nuclear arms reductions...
...Pueblo office--a cavern of polished wood, purple curtains and gleaming chandeliers--concedes that his primary motivation was to force Greaves into a merger, but second, if Greaves still refused, to force Health Net to pay far more into its shadow foundation and thereby reduce the capital it could deploy against QualMed's own California operations. As long as Dr. Hasan pressed the lawsuit, Greaves knew, Health Net had no hope of going public. "It was devastating to us," Greaves says. "My name was in the paper every day as a bad guy, a villain...