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...books have equal rights in our eyes...
...really good team, you only need two great players. If Harvard could convince two big-time high school recruits to come here, we could be a dominant Ivy League team. The prestige of the Harvard name trumps Penn, certainly. It overshadows Brown, Cornell and Columbia. It’s equal to Princeton, at the least. So, why are we perennially near the bottom of the standings...
...with states of equivalent economic status. Russia's strategic nuclear missile fleet may have once made it a geopolitical competitor to the U.S. but by economic measure, its peers would be the likes of Mexico and Argentina. Its UN Security Council veto power may have given it equal importance to Germany and France in the European camp opposing the war in Iraq, but it remains an economic minnow by European standards - if Russia's GDP per capita doubles in the next decade, it would equal today's figure for Portugal...
...three decades since the inception of Title IX, single-sex education has been banished almost entirely to private and parochial schools on the grounds that schools segregated by sex, like those segregated by race, cannot be counted upon to be equal. But last week, President George W. Bush announced plans to change its enforcement of Title IX rules in order to allow more single-sex classes and schools in public school districts. And, though we are concerned about lax enforcement of the Bush Administration’s new rules, we are happy to see families who can?...
...wholesalers to switch at least 2% of their purchases to Fair Trade. And last November, Catholic Relief Services launched an effort to persuade the nation's 65 million Catholics "to live out their faith" by drinking Fair Trade brew. They are joining Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian groups organized by Equal Exchange, a Massachusetts company that sells Fair Trade products to 19,000 parishes...