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When women were excluded from Harvard, Radcliffe College was necessary. Ironically, its very success has led to the current state of affairs. A separate college for women at Harvard is an anachronism, a relic of the past. Harvard and Radcliffe have together built a community based upon full gender equality--a community that should remove any vestiges of separation...
...better," explained Leland's chairman, Joshua Evans. "Lots of use is desirable. Our great jerseys have never been cleaned and are all sweaty and dirty." Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn Dodgers shirt from 1949 was carried down the ballroom aisle hung on a gold stanchion, like some saint's relic, and spike marks and bloodstains could be seen on the right sleeve. Robinson's widow Rachel, who consigned the jersey, watched from the front row as it sold...
...CONSTITUTION: A relic not worth defending. The 150 legislators who barricaded themselves in Moscow's White House last week claimed to be fighting against "Yeltsin's anticonstitutional regime." But the Constitution dates back to 1978 and was conceived when "parliament" was little more than a rubber stamp. The document fails to distinguish between the executive and legislative branches of government, offers no coherent foundation for lawmaking and has been amended over 300 times. The reason for parliament's loyalty to it: thanks to its inherent ambiguities, the Constitution serves as an ideal instrument for hamstringing Yeltsin...
...argument over how to interpret Maya writing -- along with arguments over just about every other aspect of Maya archaeology -- won't be resolved anytime soon. New discoveries are constantly reinventing the conventional wisdom. At Caracol, for example, the Chases have uncovered an unprecedented 74 relic- filled tombs; their location, in living areas, supports the idea of ancestor worship, and the number of burial chambers provides evidence, the Chases think, that the Maya had a large, prosperous "middle class...
...could buy some time on the Soviet-made Mir space station, a relic of the once-flourishing program in the USSR. Unmanned probes appear to be the cheaper, better way to go for scientific data-collecting. In any case, we will always have plenty of time to absorb the budgetary blow. That is, until the sun explodes...