Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Continued political and financial support for the United Nations will come more easily from American politicians when Americans themselves are aware of the significance of international affairs in their daily life. Our first priority is therefore to integrate a more robust global perspective into our educational system at every level, beginning with the United Nations Week events on campus this week...
...testosterone level turns from the 1290s to the 1990s when I sit down with students from the Men and Masculinity course. Its wide-open discussions, on books and films as varied as Black Boy and Adam's Rib, dissect their assumptions about manhood. Jimmy Burress, a gay student who took the class as a freshman two years ago, says it helped him come out of the closet. Physics major David Woessner, meanwhile, was inspired by works like Shane to embrace the virtues of chivalry--when there are women around to practice them with. I ask the guys about the less...
Still, though the co-education debate has died down, it quietly lingers among faculty. "Women still need women's colleges because society's playing field isn't level yet," argues classics professor Leslie Day, one of 17 women on the faculty and a graduate of all-female Bryn Mawr College. "I worry that the message the guys get here is that women are just for weekends." She rolls her eyes as a student enters her office wearing a jesting T shirt that reads WABASH DOESN'T NEED WOMEN...
...October, like some sort of stock-market Reggie Jackson who steps up to the plate to trade while others quake and shiver. But I'm not. I took an intentional walk. We sold a hefty amount of stock going into the month, raising cash to 50%, an abnormally high level for my hedge fund. As stocks have come down, I have reapplied that money to the market in a gingerly fashion. But the bulk of our spare cash is quietly benched in the bond market, waiting patiently for another 500-point sell-off to be put back on the stock...
...Perry and Campbell, they pull off the improbable task of both holding individual appeal despite failing to generate the slightest spark of chemistry. Campbell can always fall back on her natural sweetness to keep herself afloat, but she seems somewhat miscast here and never much rises above the level of serviceable. Perry, saddled with a ridiculous shaggy dog hairdo, has an even tougher time as he's called upon to carry the film without his greatest asset. Drained of his biting sarcasm, Perry is forced to rely on his slight natural charms and although he manages to be likable...