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Students say the academic nature of their cause necessitates working within the system, to a certain degree. But they agree that a mass movement behind them is necessary to increase their visibility and to sustain pressure on the administration...
Butler said he was also amused and annoyed by a fellow runner who barked “like a puppy” in order to sustain her energy...
...most women Hewlett interviewed, childlessness was more like what one called a "creeping nonchoice." Time passes, work is relentless. The travel, the hours--relationships are hard to sustain. By the time a woman is married and settled enough in her career to think of starting a family, it is all too often too late. "They go to a doctor, take a blood test and are told the game is over before it even begins," says A.I.A.'s Madsen. "They are shocked, devastated and angry." Women generally know their fertility declines with age; they just don't realize how much...
...entanglements with Enron are symptomatic of more fundamental problems in the Harvard Corporation. Rubin represents the same corporate interests as the elites he is joining. He stands for the same logic behind Harvard’s heavy-handed expansion into Allston and its exploitation of the workers that sustain our community. Harvard is primarily an educational and research institution, and yet the people who govern it—with the exception of former University of Chicago President Hanna H. Gray—can hardly claim to be qualified as academics...
Bochner’s photographs are like enigmatic riddles that must be deciphered in a logical and mathematical way. The pleasure that the viewer derives from his work lies in the beauty of the ideas that sustain the imagery...