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women do have somewhat different orientations, different agendas, different modes of enactment, in their relationships with other people, and it is this side of her work, rather than the moral judgment issues, that she has been following up effectively in her more recent teaching and writing...
...Even worse, some in the labor crowd have actually come up with an alternative: Ralph Nader. In somewhat shocking statement Tuesday, UAW president Stephen Yokich said Gore was "holding hands with the profiteers of the world" and said Nader "will take a stand based on what is right." And Nader, longtime corporate gadfly and hard-core environmentalist extraordinaire, is running well enough in all the right places to give Gore the same case of the Perots that George Bush caught in 1992. Nader is running 4 to 5 percent nationally and 9 to 10 percent in California, an absolute must...
...Rudenstine's legacy will be that of an effective administrator. Aside from his memorable efforts on the national stage to lobby for affirmative action and funding for university research, Rudenstine has preferred to focus his attention on University issues. And despite a reputation for being somewhat of a micro-manager--which contributed to his 1994 bout of exhaustion and a few poor tenure decisions--Rudenstine has performed this administrative role remarkably well. His regular meetings with deans have ameliorated a previously fractious relationship, leading to, by most accounts, a healthier sense of collegiality and greater willingness to cooperate. His goals...
Joan and Melissa Rivers may want to watch their backs. For years, they have owned the coveted mother-daughter spot on the red carpet at awards shows, but next month their pre-eminence will be challenged by two women of somewhat more refined talents. Last week ROSEMARY HARRIS and her daughter JENNIFER EHLE were nominated for Tony awards in the category of Best Actress. Harris, a stage veteran who has won a Tony, was recognized for her role in Waiting in the Wings; Ehle, best known for playing Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice...
...somewhat artificial nature of this much anticipated milestone was underscored in two separate announcements last week. Writing in the journal Nature, a team of scientists working on the public project reported that they had finished decoding chromosome 21, the strand of DNA responsible for, among other things, Down syndrome. And a California company, DoubleTwist, Inc., said it had used data from the public genome project to pinpoint 65,000 individual genes, out of the 100,000 or so in each human cell...