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...dedication to understanding and questioning led her into a new field of research in the mid-1980s. Benhabib is now a leading scholar of feminist political and social theory and was prominent in the debates surrounding Professor of Education Carol Gilligan's "In a Different Voice...
Last week Biehl, 26, a Fulbright scholar dedicated to hastening South African democracy, became the first American victim of the pitiless violence that has accompanied the country's slow transformation. Her nationality was not significant to the teenagers who knifed her repeatedly in the head: her skin color was reason enough. But her murder was another indication that the violent, sometimes anti-white rhetoric adopted by some political groups is finding expression in action. The death of an idealist is not the death of idealism, but it sent a chilly message to those who hope that good intentions...
...enrolled at Santa Monica College to repair his undergraduate record and made the dean's list with a 3.7 GPA. He had no trouble holding down a 15-hour- a-week market-research job. He even got into an advanced scholar's program that guaranteed admission to UCLA...
...called this "criminalization" of homosexual acts, the Justices denied gays any but the lowest standing as a potentially disadvantaged group under the 14th Amendment. Since then, activists have achieved limited success with maverick lower courts by citing similar protections in the Fifth Amendment. However, Laurence Tribe, a constitutional- law scholar at Harvard, deems a challenge to the new regulations through equal protection "an uphill fight...
...gain pity point, you've got to cultivate the right image; although Wisconsin candidate Russ Feingold eventually won a Senate seat, his come-from-behind ads, though similar in content to Wellstone's, were far less effective. Feingold, a visibly slick state politician, announced that he was a Rhodes Scholar and then declared himself "the underdog running for the Senate...