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...greater problem with F&Ss is that they create a parallel structure outside the College's existing social framework. Just as the final clubs hold members- and females-only parties in their buildings, F&Ss create an exclusive atmosphere through private functions and rush rituals. These happenings weaken the College's own social scene (arguably weak enough already) by sharply dividing the society of different groups...
...case with most of Rifkin's campaigns, there is a real issue hidden underneath the overheated rhetoric: Who should profit from a country's indigenous genetic resources? A parallel question was solved for material resources years ago. Countries with oil or minerals simply kicked out foreign exploiters or forced them into fair profit-sharing agreements...
Perhaps the United Nations could have chosen a worse host than China, but participants at the Fourth World Conference on Women were hard pressed last week to think of one. As the official U.N. event opened in Beijing, more than 30,000 delegates to a parallel, nongovernmental conclave in the remote northern suburb of Huairou were still contending with all manner of inadequacies and harassments. Just why China should have put on such an unseemly display for all the world to see was a consuming puzzle, but at least the International Olympic Committee had cause for relief. Two years...
...quarter of the way back in the column, the customary place for advisers. As usual, we were moving in single file, which meant that the V.C. could halt the entire column by picking off the first man. I had urged Hieu to break the battalion into three or four parallel columns, but the forest was so dense and the passes so narrow in places that Hieu let this bit of American wisdom go politely unheeded...
Well, George's first issue was introduced at a packed press conference last Thursday (copies will hit newsstands Sept. 26), and the Waterworld parallel holds. George, it turns out, is pretty decent, by turns knowing and witty. But the question remains: Can a glossy, expensive-looking magazine devoted to profiling the likes of former Democratic National Committee chair David Wilhelm justify the big investment and an initial press run of 500,000 (an optimistic figure that would give George a circulation roughly equal to Details...