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...scored 12 more points than any other defenseman in the country, but her imposing presence on the ice is even more valuable than her scoring ability. She can shut down prolific scorers and disrupt the break-away, and she is not afraid to go to the penalties box (her 28 penalties account for 20.7 percent of Harvard's penalty minutes...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, | Title: HIGHLIGHTS | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...think it's all or nothing--either youexclude men or you don't," he says. "I don't thinka man's presence would so disrupt the day-to-dayoperations or spirit of the institution so as toundermine the goal...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bunting Fellows Could Include Men Next Fall | 2/23/1999 | See Source »

...because it is the primary library serving the campus, administrators decided the library could not be closed to allow for these improvements. The construction had to occur under a schedule that would not disrupt patrons...

Author: By Eric M. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Countway Library Under Construction | 2/10/1999 | See Source »

...murder. But unless an impartial international criminal tribunal is established with very clear rules and procedures, going after only certain dictators will be an arbitrary process. Also, if a nation approves a general amnesty for atrocities committed by one of its regimes, should a foreign judge be allowed to disrupt that nation's healing process? I don't think so. Otherwise, as Charles Krauthammer stated [VIEWPOINT, Dec. 14], a dictator's best protection will be never to give up power. EDUARDO ZAYAS-BAZAN Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 11, 1999 | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...skeptics remain unconvinced by the anti-religious liberals' influence on politics, their excessive secularization of our public schools should make them weep. Admittedly, children do have the constitutionally protected right to pray in school, individually or in groups, silently or aloud, as long as they don't disrupt classroom activities. But the wicked liberals still insist that we shouldn't be able to force them to pray. The liberals have also kept creationist pseudoscience out of our science class-rooms. Evolutionists already have the unfair advantage of scientific evidence. If we can't get creationism in, we cannot allow evolution...

Author: By Derek C. Araujo, | Title: A Dire Threat to Religion? | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

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