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...role for Radcliffe saw its programs as redress for unequal opportunities for women at Harvard. In effect, dual citizenship at Harvard-Radcliffe allowed women to decide the necessity of Radcliffe for themselves. They could choose to participate in the supplementary programs of Radcliffe, like the student organizations, externships, seminars, etc. Or, as many elected to do, they could ignore...
...WHAT?: "Putney Swope has a nice ring to it. We got it from the movie of the same name...people always mispronounce it, though (Putney Swoop, Puppy Smoke, etc...
...sets itself up for director Payne's satiric touch. At Carver High School, Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) is the shoo-in for Student Council President. After all, everyone is afraid--terrified--to run against her. She's the ultimate overachiever--member of every club, top 10 of her class, etc. etc. But she's an overachieving overachiever--she sets up a booth just to get nomination signatures, has a mom who writes to Connie Chung for advice on her daughter's career, and has sex with the first "friend" she ever makes at Carver (oh, and this "friend...
...Chris Coley is the closest thing there is to an authority on RSI (or, to be technically correct, RSIs; RSI is, in the words of a Harvard-Radcliffe RSI Action Group handout, "an umbrella term for a variety of injuries: tendinitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, cubital tunnel syndrome, etc.") at Harvard. A physician at University Health Services (UHS), Dr. Coley has made a professional hobby of the disease. He candidly admits that "It s really something that most physicians know very little about." A survey he has conducted collaboratively with the Computer Science Department will, once examined, hopefully provide a quantitative...
...getting up to go to the bathroom. But X-rays, C.T. scans and myriad other tests revealed nothing that could possibly account for the pain. Gawande s article also quoted several studies showing that pain perception varied widely between people undergoing identical experiences (e.g. surgical operations, war wounds, etc.). In other words, a stimulus that would cause one person severe pain would be only a minor annoyance to another. The point here is not that some people are "tougher" than others, that some people can just bite the bullet while others run whimpering to the medicine cabinet or even...