Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members of the Coalition, who came together following the Elster rape in February 1998, that means building a women's center, improving the Sexual Assault/Sexual Harassment (SASH) advising system, and offering round-the-clock counseling services. Because the way things stand right now, they say, undergraduates who have been sexually assaulted turn away from Harvard just when they need the College's support the most...
...current law, passed last year as the "Solomon Amendment," allows the government to withhold federal grants, like Stafford Loans and Pell Grants, to law schools that don't comply. The law has put law schools across the country in a predicament: stand by their principles and risk losing federal dollars, or open their campuses to an employer that discriminates against many of their students...
Reality Bites might stand a chance at getting a spot on the Food Network; look at the success of mtv's The Real World. The problem, alas, would be in attracting viewers. My natural audience, women with children, wouldn't make time to watch me cook for my family--they barely have time to cook for their own. And when they do tune in, after the kids are in bed and the dishwasher's loaded, they're not looking for a mirror, they're looking for a window...
Last week the quaint square around the courthouse was jammed with satellite trucks and bristling with security. Dozens of uniformed police officers accompanied jurors, and plainclothes Texas Rangers with Secret Service-style earphones encircled the witness stand, even as police helicopters swept the skies. And, of course, no one could get into the courtroom without going through those machines. Local officials feared a repeat of the marches that rocked the town after the death of James Byrd Jr. last summer. On the day of his funeral, both the Ku Klux Klan and the New Black Panther Party marched...
...Kanjanavanit, who can no longer speak about The Beach situation without crying, says families and friends on the neighboring island Phi Phi Don have split over the controversy. She's right about that. "Many people no like cinema; some like cinema," says an elderly woman running a trinket stand on Phi Phi Don. "I like cinema; I like Century Fox. But tore-up beach is no good." A nearby friend turns away and twirls her finger around her ear--the universal sign language for "she's nuts." Says the friend: "Beach O.K. Leo good actor...