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...that Harvard spent nearly twice as much on men's sports teams as it did on women's teams during the 1995-6 academic year. While the statistic may seem disturbing, it is no cause for alarm. A careful review of the report dispels concerns about the possibility of rampant discrimination against female athletes at Harvard. Indeed some steps may be warranted to narrow the spending gap, but the report does not illustrate any pattern of unfairness. There is no indication that Harvard has provided female athletes with anything less than the equal opportunity for participation which they deserve...
...public school where Anthony Wiggins used to teach English, seventh-graders stole his car. That persuaded him to move over to St. Adalbert's, though he had to take a $10,000 pay cut. "Crime and violence [in some public schools], those things run rampant," he says. In the more orderly atmosphere of St. Adalbert's, he says, the children "can receive the things I have to give them...
...auspicious return to Cambridge was greeted by a parade celebrating Cambridge's longevity, which produced some longevity of its own upon Mass Ave. But that did not mar our return. Neither did the rampant road construction. Like soldiers of some long-returning army, we assiduously dragged our packages from storage one way or another, settled into our houses and marched back to the Yard, our former stomping ground. But it was not the same: the cheery red balloons waving in the Yard were not for our welcome; nary a Baybank employee tried to solicit us for the no-fee-until...
...hard to imagine mounting a successful moral crusade against something without "condemning" it. And once people start condemning divorce, they're going to do the "busybody meddling" that lets them decide which spouse was in the wrong and thus gets the condemnation. Though the result may not be rampant "Puritanism," there will have to be a bit of "oppression" in the air if the crusade is to work. There will be "self-righteousness" too. What else can you call it when married people look askance at divorced people...
...million Native Americans, the situation is critical. Tribal health-care specialists say that on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, an area about the size of Connecticut where 10,000 Lakota live, 85% of the population between ages 12 and 35 binge on alcohol and other drugs; child abuse is rampant; and gangs like the Crips and Bloods have been offering a brutal form of sanctuary for lost or neglected kids...