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Although it is not mentioned often, there lurks in some minds an atavistic suspicion that women are not stable enough to occupy positions of leadership. Fourteen years ago, Dr. Edgar Berman, a friend of Hubert Humphrey's, produced a baroque masterpiece of sexism when he proposed that women were unfit for public office because every month they were subject to a "raging hormonal unbalance." It is a pernicious and ridiculous idea that is refuted by experience (women in positions of power do not behave any differently from men) and by logic (presumably women of mature leadership age would have passed...
...only problem Saturday at Philadelphia was that the Navy heavyweight varsity felt even better--almost seven seconds better, in fact--and took the Adams Cup for the first time in fourteen years...
...reason to integrate our faculty, bringing both women and non-whites onto the faculty, doesn't, most importantly, have to do with diversity of point of view. It has to do simply with justice. In 1954, the Supreme Court said that primary and secondary schools must be integrated. Fourteen years later they said. "The time is now We're going to judge by results, not by good intentions or promises" It seems to me at Harvard we're in that position Perhaps we were in that position long ago, but certainly in 1984, we're at a stage where...
Fred Shragai, 59, of Encino, Calif., is a good example. Fourteen years ago, the prosperous real estate developer had a cholesterol level above 300 mg. At the time, he smoked four packs of cigarettes a day, was overweight (202 lbs. on a 5-ft. 5-in. frame) and routinely put in five or six 14-hour, pressure-packed days a week at the office. Rich sauces and fatty meat were his standard fare for both lunch and dinner, and exercise meant reaching under the bed to grab from his stash of pretzels and potato chips. Shragai was a classic candidate...
...Fourteen of the elected and party officials slots will automatically go to members of the Massachusetts Democratic Congressional delegation, but two of the rest of the elected and party officials delegation as well as the at-large representatives will be selected on the basis of statewide primary results...