Word: placing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Driskell scored more than twice as many votes as the second-place candidate, the referendum to raise the council's term bill--which outgoing council president Noah Z. Seton '00 had trumpeted as the cure to the council's financial woes--was ultimately rejected by a majority of voters...
...expected that there would be at least two clear frontrunners, and I felt like we were one of them," she said. "I expected first place and second place to be really close, though...
These are basketball fundamentals that players like Tinsley have mastered and that the Crimson players have shown in the past. Once the fundamentals consistently fall into place, everything else will follow...
...level of participation and the muted visibility of this feminist activism continue to plague Harvard. Oppenheim, perceiving women's groups merely to be a place for fuzzy self-esteem games, questions the existence of the Ann Radcliffe Trust at a time when advocates for women's issues should no longer remain silent. Oppenheim shows his lack of understanding when he asks, "As for the existence of 'emotional support,' don't we all need a bit of that?" Perhaps what's really needed at Harvard is not a women's center to address intricate issues of gender politics, but a center...
...Oppenheim's article foolishly caricatures "women's issues" as illusory concoctions of overzealous activists. The next time I see a girl who was sexually assaulted, I'll remember to give her that "occasional hug," ask her if she's got a meeting place for a bit of that "emotional support" and tell her that being raped has nothing to do with her gender. After all, somebody needs to give these unfairly protected people that good old-fashioned reality check...