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Student participation was the final element of the memorial service...

Author: By Jessie M. Amberg, | Title: A Year After Death, Rabin Is Remembered | 10/25/1996 | See Source »

Those who object to fraternities (and final clubs) usually do so on two grounds. The first is pragmatic: They're a bad element, they promote drunkenness and endanger women, and they fragment the campus social scene. The second is more fundamental: Single sex social institutions are discriminatory and elitist, and hence we can't condone them morally...

Author: By David H. Goldbrenner, | Title: In Defense of Elitism | 10/25/1996 | See Source »

First up will be the tough Rutgers squad. Hopefully for Harvard, it will be able to find that winning non-league element which will propel it into the next echelon. Providence 3 Harvard...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: Women's Spikers Swept | 10/23/1996 | See Source »

...roots of Clinton's political prowess go back to his childhood. An awkward, slightly overweight, and very unathletic tyke, Clinton was out of his element in Hot Springs. Not only were these traits obstacles to childhood and adolescent acceptance, but his social life was also hampered by his glowing intellect: Clinton was just too smart to fit in. His only recourse was surely his personality, and what a personality it was. Recognizing this talent, Clinton developed at a young age his easy-going, affable, glib, hail-fellow-well-met attitude that has so characterized him for years...

Author: By Tom Cotton, | Title: Clinton's Politicking Is Sincere | 10/19/1996 | See Source »

...screen--The First Wives Club is dipping into a bottomless well of shared female rage. It is rage at the imbalance of power that allows men to use up the best years of a woman's life, then trade her in for an ingenue--and rage at every single element that goes into that scenario: the obsession with youth and looks, the persistent inequality in income, the devaluing of a woman's contribution to the family and to a man's success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HELL HATH NO FURY | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

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