Word: gender
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...were simply more qualified candidates than Danilewitz is--including the co-chair of Harvard Students for Israel and another active member of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel. We did not employ quotas in our selection of columnists, and we did not reject anyone because of his or her race, religion or gender. In fact, we increased the total number of columnists from 10 to 17, with the number of Jewish columnists rising from eight to 10 this semester. Moreover, despite Danilewitz's absence, 80 percent of current Crimson editorial board executives are Jewish--no fewer than last year...
...grungy back-up band) as the fictional Hedwig, avoids high camp, low sex jokes and Judy Garland impressions. True, Hedwig's stage patter has its share of double entendres ("I do love a warm hand on my entrance"), but the literate script is also a poignant meditation on loneliness, gender confusion and the Platonic notion that sex is the effort to reconnect two halves of one ideal being. All of this is embellished by 10 muscular, melodic rock songs by Stephen Trask, which combine hard-driving punk with Beatles-style lyricism for the most exciting hard-rock score written...
Other pieces in the book predicted that conception would take place in laboratories and gestation in artificial wombs, that the gender of babies would be determined in advance, that homosexuality would be universally accepted. Today, two years before Millenny's birth, it all sounds remarkably familiar...
...table was the Riggs Amendment to the Higher Education Act. The measure, proposed by Rep. Frank Riggs (R-Calif.), would have ended Federal funding for all universities and colleges considering race, ethnicity and gender in admissions decisions, amounting to the end of affirmative action in university admissions...
...this year, the empire struck back. Specifically--and it doesn't take a media-savvy K-schooler to notice--Harvard has embarked on a spin campaign, an effort to insulate itself from gender-based threats to its prestige and fundraising power...