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...recent RUS meeting, one student joked, “Yale and Princeton may each have one women’s center, but Harvard has 24!” This remark accurately reflects the lengths to which students must go in order to acquire information about women’s resources, but that problem could be easily remedied. Establishing a physical space to mark the living legacy of women at Harvard would be an important milestone in Harvard-Radcliffe history. A women’s center at Harvard would not only explicitly demonstrate a commitment to the support and betterment...
...most dramatic moment of Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the 9/11 commission last week--her confrontation with former Senator Bob Kerrey--was also the most revealing. Kerrey was hammering Rice about the President's now famous "fly swatting" remark. Bush had asked Rice for a comprehensive strategy for dealing with al-Qaeda; he didn't want any more futile pinprick attacks. "What fly had he swatted?" Kerrey demanded. And a minute later: "Why didn't we respond to the [bombing of the U.S.S.] Cole? Why didn't we swat that...
...participant in a national feminist conference paid for in part by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) announced that "I don't think we need a theory of atonement at all; I don't think we need folks hanging on crosses and blood dripping and weird stuff," the backlash to the remark and other controversial aspects of the conference resulted in the resignation of one high Presbyterian official and a cost in contributions that the denomination estimated at $2.5 million...
...most dramatic moment of Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the 9/11 commission last week-her confrontation with former Senator Bob Kerrey-was also the most revealing. Kerrey was hammering Rice about the President's now famous "fly swatting" remark. Bush had asked Rice for a comprehensive strategy for dealing with al-Qaeda; he didn't want any more futile pinprick attacks. "What fly had he swatted?" Kerrey demanded. And a minute later: "Why didn't we respond to the [bombing of the U.S.S.] Cole? Why didn't we swat that...
...Nazis from invading Britain. But final victory required having Russia and the U.S. on Britain's side. So whether the British Prime Minister had been Neville Chamberlain or Winston Churchill or Clement Attlee, there would not have been a British defeat at the hands of the Nazis. Wolfgang J. Remark Markgroeningen, Germany...