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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beyond cases where the law is required to remedy a fundamental advantage between the sexes. For example, at the University of Michigan, sexual harassment charges were filed against a student who slipped the following joke under a female student's door: "Q. How many men does it take to mop a floor? A. None, it's a woman's job." While such behavior is inappropriate and unconscionable, it is not based on any clear advantage which renders women unable to respond. To call this a case of sexual harassment is to say that women need special protection under...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Definitions of Harassment | 11/8/1996 | See Source »

...Stevens Forever Spring Ginseng Pack 315,955 2 Adrien Arpel 4-in-1 Skin Care Complex 301,311 3 Quick N Brite Cleaner 264,649 4 Smart Chopper 260,396 5 Tony Little Ab Isolater 225,458 6 Connie Stevens Forever Spring Collagen Skin Quencher 223,936 7 Smart Mop Set 211,589 8 Adrien Arpel Kaleidoscope compact 201,381 9 14K Oval Ear Studs with choice of gemstone 194,259 10 Lifeway's Ginseng Royal Jelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 23, 1996 | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

...different note, Pat and Ed's daughter Zivia--Samara Levenstein at her wide-eyed and solitary-moshing best--adds a delightfully original flavor to the show. With her crazy mop of red hair, her rich commanding speaking voice and her strictly Allston Beat wardrobe, Zivia shoots looks as darkly and announces religious comings as coldly as any typical 13-year-old heroin addict...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: 'Vampires': Searching for Biting Humor | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

...first learned about Kedlaya from my first-year roommate Hank Chien, another member of the math elite subculture. My roommate had placed twelfth in the U.S. Math Olympaid, so he always had stories about what life was like on the math competition circuit. ARML, AHSME, AIME, USAMO, MOP--I was buried in math acronyms during my first year at Harvard. Naturally, I quickly learned the names of the legends in the math community, most of whom were at Harvard--Lenny Ng, Sergey Levin, Manjul Bhargava...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: Breaking the Curve | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...anguished protest on someone's part; no exertion of the undertaker's art could conceal all Elisa's wounds. Before she smashed her daughter's head against a cement wall, Awilda Lopez told police, she had made her eat her own feces and used her head to mop the floor. All this over a period of weeks, or maybe months. The fairy tale was ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELISA IZQUIERDO: ABANDONED TO HER FATE | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

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