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During oral argument, Deputy Solicitor General Paul Bender grabbed the rapt attention of the Justices when he harked back to a certain law school that refused to admit women, claiming they would run in tears from the lecture hall, unable to cope with the harsh Socratic method, the legal version of hazing. Five of the Justices recognized the school as their alma mater, Harvard Law School. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the first women to get there, seemed to hold back a smile. VMI and the Citadel might want to start building those women's bathrooms...
...many, Newt Gingrich may appear harsh and direct. But he has challenged the government to stop spending more than it takes in." PAUL D. MCKNIGHT Kansas City, Missouri...
...hard for a women to be assertive without being characterized as shrill, harsh and bitchy," says SAC member Melissa B. Weintraub '97. "I'm sure Liz fell prey to some of those characteristics. But I think that her discomfort was a result of some fundamental differences over the direction the committee was taking, not only her gender...
...widely divergent income levels, and fretting over a whole generation that remembers the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. At moments of particular skittishness--perhaps following a new gambit by a Jiang rival, an incident of disorder or Deng's taking a turn for the worse--the state steps up its harsh talk and bullying...
...John Shattuck, that led to his arrest and trial. "From the government's point of view, Wei did something wrong," notes TIME's Hannah Bloch. "He continued to meet with foreign journalists after he was released from prison, and he clearly violated the terms of his parole." Wei's harsh 14 year sentence is intended to provide a warning both to other dissidents and to the West, notes Bloch, from a government beset by internal turmoil and international disapproval of its human rights record...