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...structures of power and privilege that hinder gender equality are the same ones that hold workers down. The world’s richest university and the object of Working Mother’s (misguided) approbation owes its women workers more than a pink slip and a girl-power press release...

Author: By Amee Chew, Marcel A.Q. Laflamme, and Aidan S. Madigan-curtis, S | Title: No Layoffs | 4/30/2004 | See Source »

...began with a Salon article by Mark Simpson in July of 2002. “For some time now, old-fashioned (re)productive, repressed, unmoisturized heterosexuality has been given the pink slip by consumer capitalism,” writes Simpson. Extolling perfectly primped—but virulently heterosexual—British Soccer star David Beckham as the premier member of this new breed of urban chic, Simpson’s conception of the metrosexual has evolved with the times...

Author: By Adam P. Schneider, Bari M. Schwartz, and Wendy D. Widman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Strutting their Stuff Pt. II | 4/29/2004 | See Source »

After more impressive play left Chiampa alone in first place, her fortunes began to shift as she recorded consecutive bogeys on the 15th and 16th holes. But the lone senior on the team was unfazed by the slip-ups, as she sunk a birdie on the 17th hole before firing “the three-wood of her life” on the 18th, leaving the ball just 10 feet from...

Author: By Jonathan P. Hay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fairy Tale Ending to W. Golf Captain's Career | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...came down to it, they got the job done,” co-captain second baseman Sara Williamson said. “We thought we had done it both games, but the Ivies are fickle and if you don’t play seven hard innings, any game can slip right between your fingers...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Losses Knock Softball Out of Ivy Title Race | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...Afghan campaign was one of the most brilliant and economical in military history. Nonetheless, one battle, Tora Bora, was a failure, probably allowing Osama bin Laden to slip away. Is this the stuff of apologies? Did Lincoln apologize for his army's letting Lee get away at Antietam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble with Apologies | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

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