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McLaughlin says that he experienced such double standards firsthand when he sought a lawyer to represent his daughter in court...
McLaughlin says that he experienced such double standards firsthand when he sought a lawyer to represent his daughter in court...
...denying that we want to give back to Harvard. It is unsettling for many of us who have worked for change on campus over the course of out time here to make a purely unrestricted gift to the College in good conscience after having dealt firsthand with many slow-to-change policies over the years. We are not asking for miracles--it is certainly not too much to ask to have the composition and talents of the Faculty reflect the composition and needs of the student body--but we hope that by not simply giving blindly into...
PHILIP ELMER-DEWITT, TIME's science editor, knows firsthand how quickly technology can race ahead of those who think or write about it. While putting together the package of stories for this week's special report on the first cloning of an adult mammal, he was reminded that just four years ago, in another TIME cover story--one he wrote--we said the possibility of replicating an animal from the dna of fully developed cells is "far beyond the reach of today's science." The next technological step, he notes, might not be too far off. "Suddenly the possibility...
...society to be what society would consider to be a 'real man' or a 'real woman.' To force yourself to fit one of those roles is very dangerous and harmful and can potentially seriously affect the rest of your life."CrimsonMelissa K. CrockerALEX S. MYERS'OO has experienced discrimination firsthand...