Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anticipated that last week's panel on feminism at Harvard would suffer from such an unstructured debate, and to a certain extent it did. After all, as the panelists kept repeating, feminism means different things to different people. But in spite of the imperfectly defined subject matter, the discussion was a success because each panelist gave his or her own definition of feminism at the outset and a uniform opinion emerged--that at its most basic level, feminism is the expectation or demand that women be viewed as equal to men in the eyes of the law and of society...
...intended to be support groups for women seeking advice and guidance, excellent. I know women who have been helped by having access to such a comfortable environment. But the problem with RUS is that it limits the discussion of gender equality--the most basic tenet of feminism no matter how you define it--to a discussion most often involving women only. If men and women can agree that we are all equal, surely students of both genders can agree to work together to ensure that equality really exists on campus...
...When you're studying a past civilization, no matter what works you're working with...you're dealing with basic human experiences," he says...
...Dick Albert--is that his name? Do you watch the local news? Probably not. There's a weatherman who cracks me up. He's so happy, no matter what's going on in the world or his life. You'll enjoy his work--really, he seems like the most one of the happiest people in the world, you know...
...impeachment process appears to be fragmenting still further. When House Judiciary chair Henry Hyde turned down a White House request to question Ken Starr for more than 30 minutes during the independent counsel's public appearance Thursday, he warned the President's lawyers not to probe Starr on "nongermane matters." In other words, Hyde said, no investigating the investigator: All questions must be restricted to his impeachment referral. But with spectacularly bad timing, Starr has dropped hints that he plans to step outside those bounds. His speech, aides told the New York Times, will roam beyond the Lewinsky matter before...