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Dates: during 1990-1999
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UNFORTUNATELY, Wilson has tried to have her cake and eat it too. While her actions reveal that she intends to turn Radcliffe into the foremost women's research center, she maintains the illusion that she can also provide sufficient support for female students. The result of this charade is the tragic sacrifice of women's issues on campus...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Making Choices at Radcliffe | 6/5/1990 | See Source »

...intersection of the pipes, will emit a beam that is split into two parts, each of which will bounce back and forth between suspended weights and finally return to the intersection. There the beams will be recombined, and a detector will examine them for slight distortions that will reveal whether movements of the weights have forced one light beam to travel as little as one ten-quadrillionth of a centimeter farther than the other, a likely signal that gravity waves have affected them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Signals From Distant Disasters | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...climax of the parade, the residents of Tikrit wheeled out a simple cabin, and people dressed in the robes of ancient Babylon and Assyria prostrated themselves before it. When the cabin split open to reveal a palm tree from which 53 white doves were released, Saddam appeared to a wave of applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Happy Birthday To Me . . . | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

...defensive, quite literally. Since last year, Houston attorney Mike DeGeurin has been fighting the Justice Department over a subpoena to testify before a grand jury about the source of fees. The subpoena was served on him even before his client was indicted. The IRS is pressing criminal lawyers to reveal the identity of clients paying more than $10,000 in cash. To the dismay of the defense bar, earlier this year a federal judge in New York backed the IRS in this demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: A Question Of Money | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

Jews have bar mitzvah, Catholics have confirmation, and Mormons have . . . endowment. Never heard of it? Not surprising, since this coming-of-age rite for all regular church members occurs only in temples that are strictly off limits to nonbelievers, and initiates vow to die rather than reveal details of the ceremony. Despite the secrecy shroud, news has leaked that Mormon officials last month instituted the most sweeping ritual changes in a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Women's Rites | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

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