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...article also alleges that the University was aware of but chose not to act on a 1993 letter in which Tadesse expressed a sense of profound loneliness...
...other ways, particularly for women, the difference was profound. Feminism really Was a cyclone. It hit Radcliffe (and later Harvard) some-where around our junior year. Women 10 years older went through college without it; women 10 years younger never doubted it. But we, the women of '71, we were tossed up in the air by the cyclone, and some of us never came down...
Cicero's statement reflects what is known as the natural-law argument against same-sex unions. This is the idea that marriage evolved in society over thousands of years as a childbearing union between a man and a woman, and that there is a profound wisdom in the tradition that should not be lightly discarded. Virtuecrat William J. Bennett contends that same-sex marriages "would do significant long-term social damage" to "society's most important institution." And that stretching the definition of marriage would jeopardize an already shaky institution...
...group of elite officers at the Russian Ministry of Defense had cooked up a plan out of profound frustration. According to one colonel, they first intended to intercept President Boris Yeltsin's motorcade as it traveled to the Kremlin along Znamenka Street, where their headquarters is located. Then, with Yeltsin trapped, they would demand their salaries, which had not been paid for several months, and tell him "to his face what we think about how he has destroyed the armed forces," as the colonel...
...remodeling school basements or buying modular units, the preschool and afterschool day care became mostly self-supporting: 85% of the $2 million program comes from parents' fees. "Schools should be a community hub," says fourth-grade teacher Darlene Shaw. In three decades at Sycamore Hills, she has witnessed profound change. "Out of my 23 students today, only one has a stay-at-home mom," she said. "Without consistent, quality day care, kids flounder. And for kids dealing with divorce and single-parent families, school is their stability when things are going crazy at home...