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...freshman year be allowed to sign out till any hour, it will run into a squall of opposition from a Briggs Hall contingent. The group contends that most "Cliffies cannot regulate their social lives without recourse to a set of stringent rules, and concludes that the College should retain its present restrictions. Their stand is short-sighted and does not deserve to be taken seriously be anyone concerned with Radcliffe's future as a leader in women's education...
Some critics object that most security problems occur not through sexual blackmail but bribery. Others protest that the new rules may violate civil liberties. Homosexuals will be eligible to get or retain clearances, says a Pentagon spokesman, if there is no threat of blackmail or vulnerability to coercion...
...that is not the Prime Minister's only problem. Gandhi's party has suffered a string of local-election defeats. Gandhi is hoping the crackdown in Punjab will help his party retain power in next month's state-assembly elections in neighboring Haryana...
...Mired in debt, the Norlina, N.C., couple declared bankruptcy in April 1986. Then, facing foreclosure on the 228-acre farm that she and Ernie had worked for 40 years, Margie wrote an eloquent letter to a court-appointed trustee, expressing the hope that she and her husband might somehow retain their self-respect as they went through the agonizing process of giving up their home and land. TIME reprinted that letter (NATION, Sept. 8), prompting an outpouring of mail from across the U.S. and half a dozen foreign countries. / Many of those letters offered not only sympathy but also financial...
...also remember that the Radcliffe crest and colors can highlight the success of female scholar-athletes as women. When the rugby team or the crew team wins, no one needs to ask, "Who? The men or the women?" Both teams retain the name Radcliffe, and they look mighty sharp in black. Everyone knows that Radcliffe athletes are also Harvard students, and everyone respects them for their achievements in both areas. There is no reason to think that "Radcliffe," in any area, represents anything less than "Excellence," or, for that matter, "Harvard," This statement does no spring from any wild sentiment...