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...present-day abbey consists of hewn-stone buildings with red tiled roofs, pointed arches and stained-glass windows, well-tended gardens, courtyards and sprawling palm trees. There are modern touches: a fax in the office, solar panels in the garden. The wing in which visitors stay was renovated within the decade...
...notes in his hand. The black-and-white photograph takes up a full page in the newspaper. In the top left-hand corner of the page, in full color, is a small rainbow-striped apple. Below this, there's a slangily American injunction to "Think Different." Such is the present-day power of international Big Business. Even the greatest of the dead may summarily be drafted into its image ad campaigns. Once, a half-century ago, this bony man shaped a nation's struggle for freedom. But that, as they say, is history. Now Gandhi is modeling for Apple...
...brilliant future as an institute devoted to the study of women and women's history. The women who founded the Harvard Annex in 1879--Radcliffe's institutional predecessor--did so with the aim of giving women students access to a Harvard education. For these women, the standardization of present-day diplomas represents the achievement of their goal...
...browsing, in its notorious present-day form, is anything but a harmonious experience. Pages take an eternity to load, graphics are often displayed incorrectly, and Java applets and plug-ins can tax even the fastest system's capabilities...
Among the scheduled speakers is Beate Sirota Gordon, the only female framer of the MacArthur Constitution--which was instituted in Japan after World War II--and a present-day activist. She is of Russian origin but made a mark on Japanese history when she wrote the provision that guaranteed "essential equality of the sexes" in Japan...