Word: equality
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...establishment of coed living in 1971 and merged admissions in 1977. But while the College has moved toward integration of the sexes, it has retained subtle divisions. And today the female students of Harvard are still plagued by that anachronistic separation--that feeling of being admitted on an equal basis with their male counterparts, but not entirely...
Helms says he is driven by principle, not politics. His stand on abortion and his opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment have made him a target of women's rights groups. But there are women among his most senior staff, and as a television executive in the early 1960s, he was one of the first to put a woman sports reporter on the air, over the objections of his superior...
...this country where "All men are created equal," not a single governor is Black. No Blacks serve in the United States Senate. And Blacks are woefully under-represented in many state legislatures...
...hundred years from now, men's sports will probably still be drawing the big crowds. For the time being, women athletes at Harvard can derive some satisfaction from training and playing at some of the best facilities in the nation--but they deserve more. They deserve respect equal to their abilities, regardless of attendance figures...
When Terry Hands took over from Trevor Nunn as sole artistic director of Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company in 1987, he had a daunting artistic legacy to equal. But, according to associates, Hands may have yearned just as much to emulate Nunn's commercial success -- and income -- as director of the musicals Cats, Les Miserables and Starlight Express. Hands committed himself to staging a most unorthodox venture for the R.S.C.: a $7 million musical adaptation of Stephen King's 1974 horror novel Carrie. In meetings, colleagues say, Hands was apt to recite costs and potential box-office income at various...