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Harvard's reasoning goes a little like this: Title IX prohibits all educational institutions that receive federal funds from operating any program that discriminates on the basis of sex. Radcliffe's organizations were exempt from Title IX because the law explicitly allows such programming at traditionally single-sex colleges...
...entirely antic belief that bigotry is something that happens in other places, to other people, is dependent upon a notion of Harvard as somehow detached, exempt from what occurs outside of its consoling walls. Harvard becomes an airless alter-environment in which intolerance is impolitesse. It is part of what keeps the closeted in their tombs of stifled denial...
Like other Cores, students who take classes in related areas are exempt from the QRR. Most introductory mathematics and statistics classes fill the requirement...
While Clinton's plan was shot down for cutting into social security funds, the Republicans certainly cannot claim the high ground. After insisting that they would not exceed spending limits, the Republicans are now calling the 2000 census an "emergency" in order to make their excessive spending exempt from the caps. It is ironic that Republicans insist that there is almost $800 billion in surplus for a tax cut yet they cannot yet stay inside their self-imposed spending caps. In fact, both parties knew that the spending caps would eventually be exceeded, but neither one wanted...
...that group? Savings bonds still offer a return that's competitive with things like bank CDs, money-market funds, Treasury bills and savings accounts. Better yet, the income is exempt from state and local taxes, and you have control over when you cash in savings bonds...