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...passion - binding wounds, seizing the historical moment, forging a common future - is now about getting paid and looking out for No. 1. Make a stirring speech about unifying the Continent for the first time since Charlemagne and you'll get hooted out of the public square; emphasize how membership can cut tariffs and boost the bottom line and you may have company - at least from people who run companies. The thrill is gone, replaced on both sides of the E.U. divide by the familiar grind of competing national, corporate and individual interests. The mood isn't uniformly ugly. In each...
...some students who attended punch events this fall question whether the College-mandated open punch has achieved its goals of making membership in the 207-year-old club accessible to all students...
...those who attended, many say that it seemed prior friendships or siblings’ membership largely determined whether they were asked back for the second event...
...recent statement by Sanford I. Weill, the chairman of Citigroup, that he supports the acceptance of women for membership in the elite Augusta National Golf Club marks a small victory for women’s lobbying groups who have been attempting, unsuccessfully, to end gender discrimination at the club. Augusta National is the site of golf’s annual Masters Invitational tournament, and Weill is the first member to speak out against the club’s policy. Weill’s courage should serve as an example to other members of the club and to the wider golf...
Although Augusta National and other private clubs have the legal right to restrict their membership along gender lines, it is morally repugnant to do so. To base membership decisions in any institution along gender lines, whether it is explicitly stated in membership rules or not, is discrimination pure and simple; the entire golf community should push for an end to Augusta National’s reprehensible admission criteria...