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Meanwhile, Harvard has the added responsibility to acknowledge the concerns of the women on campus who feel that Harvard does not do enough to ensure the safety and equality of its female students. The College must step up to the plate on these issues, addressing student concerns such as rape, harassment, classroom inequality and the dearth of tenured women faculty with tangible, public measures. For those undergraduates who found a home at Radcliffe, Harvard will need to fill the void...
...struggled offensively," Vail said. "We didn't execute at the plate, we missed bunts and wasted at-bats that could have turned innings into big innings...
...other meals, seniors can choose from several events planned by the Class Committee--from the $20 class picnic to the $35 clambake. Extra guests at the Commencement day House luncheons cost $10 a plate. The Last Chance Dance, which had an open bar for one hour, and the "Booze Cruise," which had a cash bar, each cost...
...speak. But near the end of the race, Gordon sensed his moment and pulled a spectacular stunt, diving down off a banked turn to the apron of the track to limbo around two other cars. He won with Dale Earnhardt as close to his bumper as a license plate. Gordon says he drives without fear and that there is a point in every race when "desire overrides everything, and if you really want it badly, special things happen...
...Mickey Mouse hats are proof of that: the Mickey Mouse face, he told an interviewer, is "without character or age; for me it represents the junk-food people, the TV children, the spoilt young ones who have all their experiences, inferior as they are, handed to them on a plate." Nobody could say Steinberg was a particularly warm or approachable person. He loathed mediocrity and made no secret of it. He simply knew too much, and in his death he took that knowledge with him. He had no equals. Now he has no successors...