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Approximately fifteen residents of Currier, North, and Cabot Houses met this week to organize the new journal, which they are considering calling "The Out of Town News and Literary Review...
...NOTEBOOK: Katsias now has 70 saves in Harvard's first six games. She has eight career shutouts. Fifteen is the Harvard record...The Crimson had a total of 34 shots on goal and 14 penalty corners...Felsen leads the stickwomen in scoring with four goals...Cutone's goal was the Crimson's first off a penalty stroke in three years...
...ruling blocks the city from making police promotions until a hearing resolves the question of whether the exam used to select candidates in 1985 was fairly administered. Fifteen officers who failed that test are suing the city and the state Department of Personnel, charging that the Cambridge Police Department manipulated their grades so that exactly 20 officers would qualify to become sergeants...
...Fifteen years have passed since Congress overwhelmingly endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment. Five years have elapsed since the measure, battered by scare talk of homosexual marriages, unisex bathrooms and female combat duty, went to its death, just three states shy of the 38 needed for ratification. Yet the ERA's 24 key words -- "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex" -- simply refuse to go away. Fifty-one Senators are now cosponsoring an effort to launch the amendment again, and the National Organization...
...time old; the strength of its political symbolism was meant to lie in its appeal to a precolonial past, that of the fresh Roman Republic, untainted as yet by Caesarism. Its model, said Jefferson, was the "best morsel of ancient architecture now remaining. It has obtained the approbation of fifteen or sixteen centuries, and is, therefore, preferable to any design which might be newly contrived...