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Despite knowing his chances of ever playing were slim, Weiss fought through a career of serious injuries to remain on the varsity roster, each year passing up the opportunity to see playing time on the JV team...
...imbalance of power, especially involving a direct supervisory role or instructional context. While of course the power gap between the University president and an FAS professor is substantial, at a decentralized university like Harvard, the president’s direct power over a senior faculty member is slim. The president has ultimate say over all tenure appointments, but New was hired from the University of Pennsylvania as a full professor, who is an employee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and whose salary is set by its dean. The president’s formal power is limited...
...privacy and freedom from government intrusion in personal decisions for 30 years. Reproductive health and childbearing choices are among the most personal decisions a woman can make. Yet today, we face a relentless, targeted attempt by anti-choice forces to deny women true equality. Legal abortion hangs by a slim margin of five to four in the Supreme Court. The probable retirement of two justices could allow an anti-choice president to pack the court with anti-choice judges. So this year, while we can celebrate 30 years of choice, it is our job to insure that reproductive rights don?...
...able to show a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda. After all, it's unlikely that America would be on the verge of starting a massive new war in the Gulf were it not for September 11. Still, despite considerable effort to unearth such links the pickings are decidedly slim - evidence revealed thus far concerns a lone al-Qaeda operative outside of bin Laden's inner circle who allegedly received medical treatment in Baghdad on his way out of Afghanistan, and of an al-Qaeda linked group operating in the Kurdish north of Iraq whose connections to Baghdad...
WATKINS: There's a slim chance Enron might not have imploded. It's hard to say. People are much more forgiving than we think. The scary thing is the amount of resistance we met. People I thought were my friends and I thought would support me backed away. They said, "Sherron, you're on your own on this...