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...rate than men are. TIME Reporter-Researcher Leslie Whitaker, who happened to be watching, immediately picked up on the remark. She called Friedan, who told her that she had got her statistics from the Small Business Administration. "When the SBA verified that women were in fact the most dynamic portion of the small- business community," says Whitaker, "I knew I was on to a good story." The result: this week's special report on women entrepreneurs, who these days are running everything from fashion conglomerates to asphalt-paving firms...
With all three evening newscasts (and a good portion of the morning news shows as well) transplanted to Moscow for much of the week, summit news squeezed out all but the briefest wrap-up of other news. Monday night's CBS Evening News, incredibly, mentioned not a single non-summit-related story. It was, to be sure, a slow news week apart from superpower summitry. But the blanket coverage raised questions of TV overkill. With little substantive news expected from the summit, and the network news divisions already facing severe budget constraints, some wondered whether the extensive TV effort...
Some athletes also have special skills that make them better equipped to fill Athletic Department jobs. "There are natural ties between sports and the jobs that we have," says Allard. Some student employees are responsible for setting up for athletic contests. "For these jobs we hire a greater portion of athletes," Allard says. "They become naturals for that kind of job. For instance, there is a certain group of football players who know what needs to be done to a baseball field prior to a game...
...treating them as fairly as it should be. In a suit filed by former Facilities and Maintenance worker Charlotte Walters, a jury found Harvard guilty of sexual discrimination on one count when it failed to discipline a worker who harassed Walters. On the faculty level, women shoulder a larger portion of the undesirable administrative burden than do their male counterparts--holding 31 percent of the head tutor jobs, although they comprise only 14 percent of the faculty eligible for these posts...
...eyes on The Crimson beforeI was a freshman and was at the first comp meetingfreshman week. So, too, was a good portion of myclassmates. Intimidated, I sucked down one or twoof the beers they fed us and made a beeline out ofthe place. I also went to the Lampoon compmeeting and the same thing happened. I was afraidof failure, of not measuring up to snuff at thefamous institutions of the Big H. Afraid that Icouldn't do things well, I chose not to do them atall...