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Most troubling is that "sex-blind" admissions might lead to classes less heterogeneous than those currently admitted. By discriminating against women in scholarship aid, Harvard might lessen economic heterogeneity under the guise of sexual non-discrimination. Should Harvard continue to take fewer women than men, popular insistence that Harvard increase its female enrollment could be met with the reply, "Our policy forbids us to discriminate...
...with 15 oz. for the average silver model. Shaffer psychs herself into certain musical moods, thinking of bright white lights for staccato passages, for instance, or of the setting sun when she has to change from fortissimo to pianissimo. "As the sun drops lower," she explains, "the heat may lessen but the colors become more intense. That is what a pianissimo should be like...
...necessary accouterments, including a can of grape concentrate, to make a few of the 200 gallons of wine a year that heads of households in the U.S. are allowed to produce without paying taxes. Physicians are prescribing wine to help lower blood cholesterol, ease glaucoma and lessen nervous tension. Some doctors are recommending wine in weight-reducing diets. A 4-oz. glass of red, white or rosé wine contains just under 100 calories. As St. Paul advised Timothy: "Use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities...
...defense of the scores coaches point to their liberal substitutions to lessen the impact. But they don't say that many substitutions only give first stringers temporary breathers and that most subs don't get in until after the overwhelming point spreads have been built up. After the game the coaches apologize and rationalize--but by then, of course, the damage has been done...
...fortnight of the Games rather than on the Olympic movement, which goes on all the time." This is probably the soundest proposal of all. The Games could be spread over a longer period as well as geographically across a nation or even a group of nations. This would lessen the present emphasis on a single spectacle, thus diluting the chauvinism that clearly permeates the Games...