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Patricia Ireland told a capacity crowd last night at the Kennedy School of Government that while the feminist movement has already done a great deal to improve women's lives, there is still a long...
...their contractions, their favorite sports, their religions or their political ideologies. Others drift culturally to those from the same geographical region. It is the very diversity of Harvard that forces us to specify which parts of our background are important to us. I am a Jewish public-school feminist from Seattle who writes for the Crimson. Most of my friends in at least one (if not more than one) of same categories. It is not racism to suggest that, while a diverse campus is a wonderful real, most of us pick our friends based on common interests. If that happens...
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL DEAN ROBERT CLARK HAS CLAIMED THAT he's trying to bring diversity to Harvard. But Clark recently supported the drive to keep law professor CATHARINE MACKINNON off the faculty. MacKinnon is one of the most prominent feminist legal scholars in the country and something of a media star. In a secret faculty vote last month MacKinnon was denied a position at Harvard by a slim margin. MacKinnon's legal writings on pornography were criticized by some, and Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz also helped muster the opposition against...
...Cressida to the avenging victim of Death and the Maiden. She approximates the emotional clarity of Vanessa Redgrave, the assertive power of Judi Dench and the braying, spiteful fun of Maggie Smith -- and adds an androgynous beauty suited equally to Shakespeare's pants parts and to the contemporary feminist dialectics of the vehicle she has chosen for her U.S. stage debut, Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution...
High-profile feminist scholar and University of Michigan law professor Catharine A. MacKinnon, who was recently under consideration for a tenured position, did not get the required two-thirds majority vote from the faculty...