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...also felt the pressure of women's activism. The nine all-male final clubs once again were the object of debate in the dining halls and in the Undergraduate Council. This time around the council took a stand, calling on the clubs to admit women. Meanwhile, the gender discrimination suit against the Fly Club filed more than a year ago with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination dragged...
...weight, well, she enjoys eating too much ever to be as svelte as she once was. She laments that the campaign added 13 lbs. to her 5-ft. 8-in. frame. During the Bushes' Florida postelection vacation, photos appeared of her swimming in the type of bathing suit popular with matrons in the '50s. Later, she jokingly asked photographers to cap their lenses -- "My children are complaining all over the country." When she told a reporter that her trademark pearls were $90 fakes worn to hide her wrinkles, it was a comment on the universal regret at aging...
...most politicians enhanced his credibility. Though he has been living like gentry for nearly 40 years, his geniality kept him in touch with the folks. "Having been a Roosevelt Democrat was an asset," Neustadt observes. "Though he turned far to the right, he never became a three-piece-suit, business Republican." Instead he became something new under the Republican sun, a smile-button conservative who persuaded voters that less taxation meant more prosperity, that less government facilitated the pursuit of happiness. And he taught the Washington establishment that compulsive attention to detail in the Oval Office simply...
...University became the first U.S. school to establish a branch campus in Japan. In a new nine-story Tokyo building financed by a separate Japanese board, some 1,600 Japanese students attend classes taught in English by Temple professors. Last fall Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business followed suit with Japan's first-ever English-language M.B.A. program. More than 40 other institutions, including Texas A & M and M.I.T., are negotiating similar deals. "The Japanese lack preparedness for globalization," says Chikara Higashi, president of Temple University Japan. "These institutions are an ideal means for them to overcome the language...
Last October a similar popular uprising deposed the leadership of the ethnically diverse province of Voivodina. But when Montenegrins tried to follow suit a few days later, riot police brutally crushed their demonstrations. This time police did not intervene as protesters demanded that the government step down for abusing power and mismanaging the economy...