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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Oppenheim writes that feminist activists need "to take a little time-out for a good old-fashioned reality check," arguing that "Surely, sexism, sexual harassment and sexual assault are issues that belong to everyone. Why are women's meetings any more deserving of protected space than anyone else's?" While issues such as sexism and sexual assault might "belong to everyone," the victims are disproportionately female. Their experiences are unique and can be emotionally and physically debilitating. The reasons for assault extend beyond the simple realm of "public safety" and into the more complicated ways in which gender hierarchy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...Relegating the needs of these women to "more meeting space and an occasional hug," as Oppenheim does, reveals the pervasive ways in which women's status continues to be demeaned and their experiences trivialized. Moreover, while the glorious call for equal opportunity and non-discrimination sounds pleasant to the ears, it ignores the methods in which inequality is initially constructed. "Equal opportunity" and "non-discrimination" hence become ways to mask and then perpetuate the unequal conditions that exist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...Huskies also overcame the poor play of Aygar, who often looked like a giant waste of space out on the court. Despite being 6'10, he only weighed 200 pounds and got pounded underneath. He only managed four six points and four rebounds while playing shoddy defense, and Coach Rudy Keeling played him only 25 minutes...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Basketball Notebook | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...longing for the collective lifestyle. That same year the two attended a slide show by Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett. The Berkeley, Calif., architects are the principal American evangelists for cohousing--a type of intentional community in which buildings are designed to encourage social contact while preserving private space. "You have the choice between privacy and community," Durrett says. "It's a 21st century housing solution." Instant converts Scott, Mandel and a few dozen like-minded families set about designing the ideal community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle-Class Communes | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...attacks - even accusing Luzhkov of involvement in the murder of an American businessman in 1996 - and the party is now expected to run third with somewhere between 9 and 12 percent. Nationalist firebrand Vladimir Zhirinovsky is something of a spent force these days, and will have to compete for space in the legislature with a plethora of smaller parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Russia, Democracy Isn't a Pretty Picture | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

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