Word: equalling
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...public service controversy continued this spring in the newly-created Standing Committee on Public Service, composed of six faculty members (including the chair) and three students. The Undergraduate Council sponsored a resolution to raise the number of students from three to five in order to have equal representation on a committee that overlooks an activity in which a quarter of Harvard students participate. The Faculty defeated the proposal, prompting two of three students on the committee to resign. The committee continued meeting without the students. We are not sure where public service is going at this University...
However, many students say that equal treatment is appropriate and Harvard should not go out of its way to encourage women more than...
Compared with, say, the federal deficit or welfare, the issue of same-sex marriage is not exactly a crisis in the Republic. But it has become a hot campaign issue because of a 1993 Hawaiian supreme court ruling that denying marriage licenses to gay couples may violate the equal-protection clause in the state constitution. Sending the case back to the trial court, the supreme court directed the government to show that it has a "compelling" state interest in maintaining the ban--a test it is unlikely to meet. Although the case is now on appeal in a state court...
...adolescence. Just ask Dawn Wiener (Heather Matarazzo), better known to her fellow students at Benjamin Franklin Junior High as "Wiener Dog." Built like a badly packed shipping carton, afflicted with thick, round glasses and tightly skinned-back hair, she was born to be shunned and taunted in approximately equal measure...
...contracts pegged to whatever percentage of the vote they believe the Russian President will receive on election day. Since item Ye-1606-V began trading April 22, Yeltsin's projected total, registered in flashing orange lights on a big digital board, has jumped 10 points, to around 28.50--about equal to the quote for the Communist candidate, Gennadi Zyuganov. These speculators may care more about making a profit than about who wins and what it would mean for Russian democracy, but they at least have some stake in the outcome. Not all their countrymen feel that...