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...point of confusion people sometimes have is that unequal dollars spent on men's and women's sports is de facto a sign of inequity," says Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, chair of the self-study steering committee. "Not true--there is no standard that says that the dollars spent have to be the same, and in fact that would make no sense...
...prospect of helping unfertilized human eggs transcend time raises the specter of babies born of mothers long deceased. Should a woman's death be accompanied by the destruction of her eggs? Or should the eggs of a particularly admired woman be allowed to reproduce ex post facto? Once again, science is so far ahead of the law that ethicists can only watch in wonder as the techno-train flies by. Disembodied eggs need living wills too! PETER HUMPHREY Washington
...send a copy to us?'" The end result, Sullivan predicts, will be that "you'll find they aren't that different" from state to state. When all 49 of these states are finished developing their standards, the country may end up eating its cake and having it too: de facto national standards created by the individual states...
...Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg. America had shown some interest in Buddhism before the 1950s: Henry David Thoreau wrote, "some will have bad thoughts of me, when they hear their Christ named beside my Buddha." But the Beats' incorporation of koans into the phenomenon of "hip" made them de facto recruiters for a hardy group of Japanese Zen masters who had begun arriving on both coasts in the 1930s...
...liberalization was theological as well. In traditional Buddhism, withdrawal from the world's passions was often assumed to preclude political action (although heads of large Asian monasteries often set up de facto alliances with local power structures, for better or worse). Americans, however, were attracted to "engaged Buddhism" of the sort most eloquently championed by Thich Nhat Hanh, famous for his 1960s anti-war activism. In Yonkers, N.Y., Zen master Bernard Glassman has established--using Zen principles--a bakery, garment company and building-renovation firm staffed by the formerly homeless and unemployed...