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Harvard now looks to reevaluate its Ivy stock after falling into a second-place tie with Penn. One game separates the Crimson from the first-place party of Yale, Cornell and Dartmouth (all at 3-1 Ivy), and one game separates it from the last-place stigma shared by Columbia, Princeton and Brown...
Some would argue that the accuser's testimony should be given more weight because of the stigma and emotional trauma of pursuing any case of rape. However, some people have already used fabricated sexual assault charges to destroy reputations. This practice is undoubtedly quite rare, though it is likely to grow as the unjustified stigma of being a rape victim subsides...
...stigma of coming in second or third in Harvard's search is not going to ruin anyone's career. From here on out, the search committee should make public all of its decisions about those in the running for the University's highest post...
...times have changed. For those entering politics today, membership in exclusive private clubs--such as the nine all-male final clubs at Harvard--is as often a stigma as a social asset...
Marketers are confounded as they try to reach a generation so rootless and noncommittal. But ad agencies that have explored the values of the twentysomething generation have found that status symbols, from Cuisinarts to BMWs, actually carry a social stigma among many young adults. Their emphasis, according to Dan Fox, marketing planner at Foote, Cone & Belding, will be on affordable quality. Unlike baby boomers, who buy 50% of their cars from Japanese makers, the twentysomething generation is too young to remember Detroit's clunkers of the 1970s. Today's young adult is likely to aspire to a Jeep Cherokee...