Word: understandings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it's important to help people understand gays and lesbians. It's critical to getting to a point where it's a nonissue," Borns-Weil said...
...social opportunities, as Dean Harry R. Lewis '68 has pointed out, but in maintaining a paternalistic, stifling framework within which students must choose their social activities, the administration only augments dissatisfaction among its students and ultimately creates an undesirable community of Malcontent individuals. Someday the College may come to understand this, but it certainly shows no signs of enlightenment anytime soon. GEORGE W. HICKS...
...scales in the other direction for no apparent reason. Perhaps if Boston College had a class entitled "Achieving Manhood: A Celebration of the Male Gender" that turned away female students because they were considered a corrupting influence on debate at large, the violation would be easier to understand...
...They don't understand there are things theymiss. How somebody puts something is veryimportant. To tell if someone is telling the truthyou have to look at them," he says. "You canobserve nervous twitches. You can observe bodylanguage. You lost all that by having thesubcommittee...
...story of a possible rape victim but surprised that she was so stinging in her comments about the president. Feminists' hesitancy to condemn Bill Clinton for actions similar to those for which they had rightly vilified Clarence Thomas and Bob Packwood has been extremely troublesome to me. I understand the reason for the double standard, though: Packwood and Thomas were conservatives unlikely to help women's causes in any real way--in that sense, they were fair game for attack. Clinton, on the other hand, is ostensibly "on our side" as a proponent of abortion rights, child care and equal...