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Harvard merged with Radcliffe in 1974, and the final clubs have yet to follow the cue. This lag is no surprise; the clubs have never been on the cutting edge of equal rights. Sexism is the last bastion of the clubs' illegal elitism, and the gender barrier, like that against public school students, Jews, and Blacks, will tumble in its turn...
...time lag between the filing of a representation petition and the vote...that gives the employer the opportunity to attempt to turn its workers against the union...The delay between the filing of an election petition and the vote is itself detrimental to union organizing success...There is also evidence that employers have, with increasing effectiveness over the last 20 years, manipulated procedural levers within the representation process for the purpose of increasing delay and thereby decreasing the likelihood of union victories...
Although the University has made recruitment of women and minorities a high priority in recent years, observers say the changes have not come fast enough. Harvard lags far behind othercolleges in the percentage of its faculty that arewomen, and as the University continues to play thegame of catch-up, it must consider some of thestructural reasons for the lag, these professorssay...
...Stevens' new Musicmasters album Bach on Marimba, a selection of the Inventions (originally written for a keyboard instrument) leap and dance crisply, while the chorale Christ lag in Todesbanden shimmers and glows. "With the xylophone, you hear more brittleness," explains Stevens. "With the marimba you hear the air column, a mellow, captivating sound that is rich in bass, like an organ...
...fictive account of an incident in 1789, when his native land was a penal colony. There, a troupe of convicts acted in George Farquhar's comedy The Recruiting Officer, under the supervision of their frowning keepers. The opportunities for irony are omnipresent: male and female prisoners, known as lags and she-lags, are liberated into their parts, while ! guards are locked inside their roles as soldiers. Under the Southern Cross an upright commanding officer, tempted by a she-lag, consults a chaplain on the validity of marriage vows made in another hemisphere. Perhaps the greatest irony is the novel...