Word: equalizers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cars; it is dished out with lush harmony vocals, broad keyboard textures, generous acoustic guitars, rich percussion tracks, even string, and delightfully subtle twists of sounds. Fountains of Wayne are hip, well-bred and deft at slinging pop culture saturation through suburban rockers, witty ballads and sincere lovesongs with equal flair. The lyrics are sometimes distant, but that does not detract from an album of tightly-crafted...
...Harvard College has progressed as far as anyinstitution in creating equal opportunities formen and women students," Dean of the College HarryR. Lewis '68 writes in an e-mail message. "Heretoo the task is not yet completed, but it is welladvanced, and we are proud of the results...
STOP SHORTCHANGING WORKINGWOMEN. Social Security is a rare if not unique institution that pays cash for housework and mothering. It pays a wife a benefit at least equal to 50% of her husband's, even if she never worked outside the home or paid a penny of Social Security tax. But women who worked on and off at low-paying jobs, as all too many in the generation nearing retirement age have done, receive pensions no higher than the stay-at-home moms. In effect, the Social Security taxes these workingwomen have paid earn them nothing...
...superlow inflation for another decade or so, and the stock market soars even further into the wild blue yonder, then this program could be softened. Some ideas: restore full COLAs; do not increase the "normal" retirement age beyond 67, and set the earliest at 60; grant income tax deductions equal to Social Security levies to people with somewhat more income--maybe as much...
...fertility treatments), "I think it rather more likely that, if women should be found to be unnecessary for the continuation of the species, they would cease to exist at all." Sexual freedom seem like a good thing? "The sexuality that has been freed is male sexuality." Women deserve an equal shot at a career in the military? Fine, but just remember: "In modern warfare, women and children on the ground are in greater danger than the professionals who maim and kill them from a distance." She will probably draw ire for her chapter on female genital mutilation, in which...