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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MacNeil has spent much of the last half-century seeking to better understand the U.S. Congress...

Author: By Neil Macneil, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Putting D.C. on TV: MacNeil Reviews Washington's Week | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...ramifications for academic freedom were, at best, murky. Crimson President John G. Simon '50 met twice with Conant in an attempt to understand the report's implications for Harvard professors, andCrimson editors penned a staff editorial callingfor assurances that no systematic scouring of theFaculty would ensue...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Red-Baiting Escalated in Late 1940s | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...thing to understand is that being atRadcliffe was so much better than being home withyour mother that we wouldn't have dreamed ofcomplaining about inequality with men," Wallachsays...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Harvard Crimson Class of 1949 | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...looking to understand better why Chinese spies have been so eagerly vacuuming the U.S. for military secrets during the past three decades, you could do worse than start in China with the People's Liberation Army. China's military today is so outdated that much of its equipment might well have seen action in the Korean War, and many of its troops are semiliterate. The country's strategic nuclear arsenal is 300 times as small as that of the U.S. The entire arsenal packs about as much explosive power as what the U.S. stuffs into one Trident submarine. China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Muscle: Birth Of A Superpower | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Parents and schools can guard against harassment by not tolerating it. Give your daughter the strength to say no, loudly--as LaShonda Davis did. And if you have a son who is struggling to understand what is acceptable behavior toward girls, Nan Stein says, run the Mom Test on him. "If you overhear your son talking about girls in a trashy way, remind him, 'That's me you're talking about.' If he thinks it's hilarious to snap a girl's bra, ask him if he would have done it with his mother in the room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexual Bullying | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

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