Word: slights
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...slight scare, but fortunately, the outcome proved not to be too exciting," said Gold...
While the proponents of Radcliffe (as a college) maintain that its elimination would represent a direct slight to "our own history as a women's college," its elimination would actually only bring these proponents up to date with reality. All the programs and research projects in the world won't make Radcliffe a college, especially after the 1977 Agreement, when it turned over all responsibility "for the instruction and for the day-to-day management of undergraduate affairs" to Harvard...
...obvious--but unprincipled--answer is that long tradition has lead to this result and men suffer only slight deprivation by being excluded. But the tradition of the final clubs is far longer than that of Radcliffe and no evidence suggests that any Harvard graduate has suffered serious loss by remaining un-clubbed...
During the Winter Hunger of 1944, children from the ravaged west of the country were taken in by farmers and fishermen in the northern province of Friesland, where food was plentiful and the German presence slight. 12-year old Jeroen (Maarten Smit) goes to live with Hair (Feark Smink) and Mem (Elsje de Wijn). Smit and director Roeland Kerbosch do a good job of depicting Jeroen's multifold alienation. Though his mother has sent him to Friesland for his own good, Jeroen feels abandoned by her. He finds himself a city kid in the country, where everything, even the language...
...matter how poor the skater, paying the bills is easy compared with following the training regimen. Roughly four hours on the ice, five or six days a week (a slight reduction from the old days). And corner cutters might as well not bother. Says coach Carlo Fassi, who trained Peggy Fleming, among others: "If you stop for two or three weeks, it's grueling to get into shape again." Then comes weight training to strengthen the upper body. Finally, there are ballet or jazz classes. Scott Davis, 21, rebelled against these extra lessons until his Colorado Springs-based coach, Kathy...