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...unique to America or to Western societies. Harder to grasp is the way in which Western principles discriminate against the non-Western or nonwhite. Who or what is the villain here? Galileo? Einstein? The Magna Carta? The Bill of Rights? Was Martin Luther King Jr. diminished, made to feel inferior, when he read Henry David Thoreau along with Gandhi on civil disobedience? Or for that matter when he contemplated the Reformation launched by his 16th century German namesake...
...from PMS syndrome or because I am "on the rag." That is a gender-identificati on problem. You can't say that to a male counterpart who disagrees with you. These men tend to use the female image and those things that are perceived by society as making women inferior, i.e., the fact that we are different biologically, and they make that the focus of their dealing with me. I define that as sexism. It is not sexual harassment. I have had male doctors run their hands up my leg, never in an operating room, but in meetings...
...return them. Only a defeat in war would bring that about, and who would deliver it? Iraq, previously Israel's fiercest enemy, has been neutered. Syria can no longer rely on now impoverished Moscow to bankroll its military machine, which runs on Soviet technology that was shown to be inferior in the gulf war. Egypt, which made a separate peace with Israel in 1979, is not interested. And in any event, Israel has nuclear weapons, a tough and proven military and a close alliance with the world's remaining superpower...
There were few, if any, surprises at Beren Tennis Center yesterday. The Harvard men's tennis team, currently ranked 12th in the nation, dominated a vastly inferior Columbia squad...
...best described by the Kerner Commission following the urban riots of the 1960s, most of which were ignited by police violence: "Police responsibilities in the ghetto have grown as other institutions of social control have lost much of their authority: the schools, because so many are segregated, old and inferior; religion, which has become irrelevant to those who lost faith as they lost hope . . . the family, because its bonds are so often snapped. It is the policeman who must fill this institutional vacuum, and is then resented for the presence this effort demands...