Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Associate Professor of Government and Social Studies Pratap B. Mehta said it was important for faculty to support students' legitimate concerns...
Lecturer in Social Studies Alan J. Keenan said he had high expectations for the administration's response to the letter...
...woman, I am prohibited from ever becoming a member of any of the final clubs-from ever holding the same status as men in Harvard's social scene. As private clubs, these traditional establishments have every right to use their own processes for winnowing the number of members they accept. But, on a campus that preaches and for the most part practices equality, they cannot be permitted to bar almost half of Harvard's students from applying for membership in the first place...
Putting an end to the exclusion of women would also benefit the clubs. Female members would broaden the social and intellectual horizons of members, not because they are brighter but simply because they are different. And there must be some men among the final clubs' members who, at least secretly, deplore their club's discrimination in membership men who have learned the lessons Harvard teaches--and these men could set their scruples at ease by admitting women...
...quarter-century of writing and editing analyses of Social Security had convinced me that no one would cobble together even a jury-rigged fix for the system until five minutes before the first pension check bounced--if then. But now President Clinton really has put "saving Social Security" at the top of the nation's domestic agenda, sparking a debate unprecedented in its intensity. So maybe...