Word: successes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year. Junior faculty, undergraduates, pro-divestment alumni raised the perennial protest of University policies, and yet many felt frustrated by what one disgruntled Board of Overseers member called "the tyranny of consensus." Harvard, they said, did not encourage dissent, but rather tried, behind-the-scenes, to dissuade the dissenters. Success for these outsiders was measured in small victories--the promotion of a junior faculty member, the election of a progressive overseer, the hiring of a woman or a minority...
According to friends and fellow MSA members,Ocasio's success is due in large part to anintuitive ability to strike a balance betweenwidely opposing viewpoints...
...women's lacrosse. And crew victories--the men's and women's heavyweights and the men's lightweights all won at Eastern Sprints--are certainly not unusual or unexpected. No, the surprises came from those teams which didn't win--the teams which had skill, but could not find success...
Hope does not fit anyone's profile of a radical reformer, and most say that her main success has been overcoming the barriers erected against women rather than dismantling them...
That kind of success shaped Hope's pragmatic approach toward women's progress--a belief that once women bypass traditional obstacles to advancement in the corporate and political worlds, equality will naturally follow...