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But in the humanities departments, the Faculty needs to appoint seven women to non-tenured posts--an extremely difficult task--in order to match the proportion of women there with the proportion in the national pool.

Author: By Ivan Oransky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Affirmative Action Plan Released | 3/13/1992 | See Source »

Diplomats said Iraq apparently was seeking a partial lifting of the sanctions, in proportion to how much it is obeying the Security Council's cease-fire terms.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS BRIEFS | 3/11/1992 | See Source »

Faludi: The surveys I've looked at indicate that roughly the same proportion of working men as working women fantasize about retreating to the home. Moreover, sometimes it's very hard to know what one thinks under the pressure of the backlash, to sort out what's you thinking and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Revive a Revolution | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

"We've struck gold in the Black Hills!" crowed Bob Kerrey after winning last week's South Dakota primary. The political payoff was slight: the Nebraska Democrat bagged only seven delegates. More important, his victory, with an impressive 40% of the vote, attracted contributions to his impoverished organization. But the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Campaign | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

The are some political sources of BAD ideas on campus. Take the conservative view that homosexuality is "deviant" and "unnatural"--an inexplicable belief given that homosexuals have always existed in the same proportion in every past society.

Author: By Thomas S. Hixson, | Title: BAD to the Bone | 3/3/1992 | See Source »

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