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Quirk said that Dartmouth is only one or two points away from the average manwoman ratio in the Ivy League, which is apoproximately 60-40. "I think what we're fighting is a certain societal tilt toward the traditional roles," Quirk said...
What a gift and a burden, to be Marcello Mastroianni. Though none of his 150 or so films were made in Hollywood, he is the consummate movie star: charming, at ease in his celebrity, with the light, self-deprecating tilt to his wit that royalty wears so well. The face wears well too. At 63 it has settled into a comfortable handsomeness. Today Mastroianni is exhausted from too many interviews on this Manhattan visit to promote his film Dark Eyes. But like a Casanova tantalized by the inevitability of one more conquest, he will of course accommodate another visitor...
Kinnock denied that Labor would "jettison our commitments" or that the party was "retreating or pandering to yuppies." Instead, he argued that the new tilt was a concession to "social realities." When a worker earns $600 a week, owns his own house, car and a vacation retreat in Spain, the party leader declared, "you do not say, 'Let me take you out of your misery, brother...
...appeared to tilt the balance of the war toward Iran with its arms- for-hostages deals. But as the congressional hearings into that fiasco climaxed, the Administration decided to airlift reporters to the region to highlight its efforts to stand firm against Iran...
...well as between the court's liberal and conservative wings. He became the least predictable of the nine Justices and perhaps the court's central figure, casting the swing vote in one 5-to-4 decision after another. His resignation last week gave Ronald Reagan the chance to tilt the court more sharply to the right, perhaps for decades, by appointing a more sternly and consistently conservative Justice. Said Paul Gewirtz, professor of law at Yale: "This is not just another vacancy. This is the pivot point in the next generation of American constitutional...