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...teacher, Irwin Maloff, helped organize an all-girl computer club and quickly attracted 20 enthusiastic members. Says Maloff, an avid computer buff with three daughters: "Girls have been shortchanged for years." Teachers eager to bridge the computer gender gap will soon be able to turn for advice to The Neuter Computer, a guidebook developed by New York City's Computer Equity Training Project and scheduled to be published in December. Its contents include 56 learning activities and 96 pedagogical tricks, ranging from apportioning computer time equally between boys and girls to scheduling late-night computer pajama parties. The Project...
...filmmaker as gifted as Spielberg can cow or neuter his talent forever. The Color Purple is speckled with epiphanies, especially in a flash of crosscutting that magically transplants an African plain, where Nettie has gone as a missionary, behind a Georgia bush; Celie looks up from her hymnal and--wham!--a bulldozer crashes through the chancel of Nettie's church thousands of miles away. None of this bravura, though, has liberated the attractive cast. Whoopi Goldberg suffers knowingly as Celie; Danny Glover, as "Mr.," looks vainly for a note to strike besides befuddled menace; Margaret Avery inhabits Shug without illuminating...
...distinction can be made. His very appearance at Harvard would capitalize on it. Harvard would be perceived as either applauding the man, as well as respecting his office, or at least as thinking that he is harmless enough to be or act, on this occasion as a political neuter Reagan, ideologue and politician to the core of his being, could not be, above politics in the decision it makes I remembered with pleasure FDR's appearance at the 300th anniversary, when I was an undergraduate, I didn't mind his politics so much. As remember it, it was a political...
...began her reign last week by promising a return to "traditional values." The 120-lb., 5-ft. 8-in. blond daughter of a Mormon missionary does not smoke, drink, take drugs, believe in abortion, condone premarital sex or back the Equal Rights Amendment ("The ERA would make us a neuter society; I prefer to be a woman"). A communications major at Brigham Young University who wants to become a news anchorwoman, Wells bristles at the suggestion that her conservative views helped her win the crown. "It seems that the media are bent on forcing everything I say into their Miss...
Your Essay on euphemisms [Jan. 9] mainly took to task government officials who deal in doubletalk. But now even veterinarians are getting into the act. NEUTER IS NEATER said the poster in the vet's office. Neuter merely sounds negative, whereas castration implies something final. We decided that we would have our dog neutered...