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...they must make a point of emphasizing the need for funds earmarked for closing the gender gap. And this effort must go further that merely encouraging women to participate in future capital campaigns; Rudenstine and Knowles must themselves be willing to convince donors with large wallets to lend their support to the cause, even if this risks alienating the stodgier conservative white men among them...
That Harvard undergraduates can maintain such a diversity of organizations so solidly over the years is amazing. Unlike high school, there are few non-student members at the highest levels of the organization to lend stability. Just the turnover of staff would have doomed most businesses. But organizations here have managed to exist for years and through hundreds of students based only on the sheer will and motivation of students. The intense energy and self-motivation is incredible. And whether or not resume-building plays a part at the start, ultimately most students accept huge amounts of responsibility, sometimes...
...much more welcoming of the non-Jewish spouse. Refusal to permit intermarriage has failed as a deterrent mechanism. We must try another way. If a non-Jew wants to marry a Jew and is prepared to have a rabbi participate in the ceremony, a rabbi should be willing to lend his or her Jewish participation to so important an event. In every way, Jews must become more welcoming of anyone who wants to be part of our heritage...
...Dole let things cool down. Then, two weeks ago, he tried again and sweetened the offer, telling Reed that he would lend Gingrich the money himself. Reed ran the idea past Joe Gaylord, Gingrich's top aide, and this time it wasn't instantly rejected. Gingrich had just returned from China and was on a bit of a roll; plus, as a man who gets inspirations the way other men get coffee, he began hearing from an unlikely trio of political muses. The first was Janet Reno, who, by opting not to name an independent counsel in the fund-raising...
Marianne remained a holdout; by Monday she and her husband could barely discuss the subject. That's when the Speaker asked Washington wise man Ken Duberstein, who had been urging Gingrich to pay the fine for weeks, to lend a hand. Duberstein gently told a sometimes tearful Marianne that her husband would be crushed politically if he didn't pay the debt himself, now or on installment. He said Dole's generous offer gave the Speaker a long time to make the payment--and would buy Gingrich time to consolidate his shaky position in the House. "There...