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However, these obstacles only offer further evidence that the University is not doing enough to rectify the situation, and that it must make an enormous, conscious and affirmative effort to rid itself of its male hangover. If the President, Deans and department chairs of the University continue to offer only significant improvements, in the vein of "gender-blind" appointments, neither they nor most of us will see the day when The Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard can happily go defunct...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: Chere Harvarde | 4/30/1997 | See Source »

...fact that while a cozy office in a big law firm may look pretty appealing to him right now, he can depart in his own time; Clinton is in no position to fire him, given the ongoing investigations into campaign contributions. Does the White House dream of getting rid of him? "On the list of things we chat about over here, it's not on the Top 10," says an official. "And we never get below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FBI: UNDER THE MICROSCOPE | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...battered women's shelter told us on Wednesday that she would love to put herself out of a job by ending the need for services to help abused women. We echo her sentiments; we hope that people will leave Take Back the Night week with a desire to rid our society of violence against women and ideas about where to begin. It is our goal, too, that Take Back the Night become unnecessary...

Author: By Katie H. Gibson and Adina H. Rosenbaum, S | Title: Take Back the Day, Too | 4/18/1997 | See Source »

...recruits, Yvonne McCurdy-Hill and her husband Steven, ran into the cult while online. But only after they had passed a face-to-face interview did Do ask the Cincinnati, Ohio, couple to "put their affairs in order." Says Steven Hill's mother Eartha: "They were told to get rid of all their debts, even parking tickets. Do didn't want anybody coming after them for something like that." Hill left the cult by November. Says his mother: "He just didn't buy into the grandiosity of the thing, but that's exactly what got his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FAITHFUL AMONG US | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

According to the homepage of the major Harvard soy supplier, Vitasoy U.S.A. (www.badminton.com/Vitasoy/intro.htm), soy milk contains "nutritional 'treasures'" that are "very effective in helping our body get rid of toxic waste...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Soy to the World | 4/12/1997 | See Source »

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