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...STANDS right now, students willing to make this kind of compromise are met by a patronising Radcliffe administration unwilling to meet them halfway. Since the creation of the LCR, it has been run by administrative fiat, with absolute resistance to giving students a part in the actual running of the room...
...Radcliffe's administration will meet the students halfway, the LCR could begin to fill--perhaps completely fill--many of the functions of the proposed Women's Center and could begin to make a real difference for women's lives at Harvard...
...hotels with 5,200 rooms designed by such top architects as Michael Graves and Robert A.M. Stern. There will also be a 138-acre Davy Crockett campground and an 18-hole golf course, not to mention 150,000 trees sprinkled over the Disneyscape. Construction is more than halfway along. Among the park's highlights: a 60-ft.-high Swiss Family Tree House and Disney's trademark Big Thunder Mountain, a roller-coaster ride with Gold Rush-era motifs...
...beyond the imagining of most war leaders, delivered an emotional speech that brimmed with a pride entirely justified and a self- congratulation that was almost wistful. He urged on the nation the idea that "Americans are a caring people. We are a good people, a generous people . . . We went halfway around the world to do what is moral and just and right. And we fought hard, and -- with others -- we won the war. And we lifted the yoke of aggression and tyranny from a small country that many Americans had never even heard of, and we asked nothing in return...
...beaches that are even halfway decent are owned by big hotels and reserved for their guests. We snuck onto one only to discover that it was actually an artificial beach, made of imported sand...