Word: lymans
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...past, it would be a mistake to see this is as the final victory in a hard-fought war for women. In the past, spaces that have served women and been referred to as a “Center for Women”—notably the 1990 Lyman Common Room—have done little to placate women’s groups and had minimal effect on actual inequality. Unfortunately, while the admittedly well-intentioned women’s center may make for an impressive stop on a campus tour, its impact all too likely will be limited...
...back to what remained of Radcliffe. Though Harvard had subsumed nearly all its administrative roles, the one-time women’s college still retained control over several buildings’ worth of space. In 1990, under renewed pressure from campus activists, Radcliffe administrators set up the gender-neutral Lyman Common Room (LCR)—one more try at something resembling a women’s center...
...stakes could scarcely be higher. The toll of the 9/11 attacks would probably pale alongside a successful attack on a nuclear plant near a major metropolitan area. A recent study by Edwin Lyman, a physicist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, estimates that if terrorists triggered a meltdown at the Indian Point nuclear power plant, 35 miles north of New York City, as many as 44,000 people could die from radiation poisoning within a year, and as many as 518,000 could perish eventually from cancers spawned by the attack. Millions of people in the greater New York area...
...still have a lot of things to go over and get down. I think we can do it,” senior Daphne Lyman said. “We have the potential to do really well in New Englands and nationals. We just have to keep our focus...
Johnson left little room for doubt in the B-division, as he and crews Lyman and sophomore Kristen Lynch won the division with 81 points to runner-up South Florida’s 131. After breaking down in the second race, the B-division maintained consistency, finishing out of the top 10 only once and winning four...