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Secondly, the staff examines the issue of gender discrimination in a vacuum, instead of in its proper context. Our society resolutely affirms equality between the sexes and races in terms of basic political rights. But it is far less clear whether it means to maintain such unqualified equality in all aspects of life. Special provisions for women in terms of military service, athletics and personal privacy lead one to the notion that the sexes cannot be amalgamated in the same way as can the races...
That this behavior is promoted by the Crimson Key Society, the organization for introducing freshpeople to Harvard, during Freshman Week, is all the more insulting, even dangerous. Sexist attitudes do not exist in a vacuum. They affect our behavior in ways that are damaging to both men and women. Studies show that acquaintance rape occurs more frequently among college students, particularly freshpeople, than in any other age group. Freshpeople should be currently undergoing sensitizing experiences such as date rape education workshops rather than being encouraged to cultivate sexist assumptions...
Amid these shifting security sands, Western Europe is also seeking to adapt to a changing world economic order in which America's pre-eminence has eroded as fast as its foreign debt has grown. Project 1992 is a response both to a global economic leadership vacuum and to the growing commercial challenge posed by North America, Japan and the fast industrializing economies of Asia. The opening up of Western Europe's protected national markets will hurt inefficient firms, but the hope is that enough competitive winners will emerge to ensure that Western Europe has its champions in the 1990s...
Deng's failure to make an appearance during the recent visit by the leader of Burkina Faso to Beijing has fueled new rumors that the 85-year-old Chinese leader is seriously ill. In the vacuum created by such uncertainty, conservative hard-liners who had been sidelined during a decade of economic reforms continued to stage a comeback. Among the most notorious: Maoist ideologue He Jingzhi, 65, who was named Minister of Culture last week in the first top-level Cabinet reshuffling since the purge of "bourgeois liberals" from the party began last June. As deputy head of party propaganda...
Because the new Trident is about 10 ft. longer and almost twice as heavy as the model it replaces, the missile leaves a more turbulent, gaseous wake as it rises to the ocean surface. But engineers miscalculated the amount of water that would rush into the vacuum under the missile's rocket nozzles. Investigators say these "water jets" interfere with Trident's trajectory and have led to the two mishaps. Their conclusion: the missile must be redesigned. Correcting Trident II could cost up to $20 million and delay its introduction for nearly a year...