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...have always believed that contemporary gender discrimination within universities is part reality and part perception,...but I now understand that reality is by far the greater part of the balance," wrote MIT President Charles M. Vest in his comments preceding the report...
...began the case on a Monday morning. After cooking myself a breakfast of solar-heated chickwiches in my $2,000 studio apartment--a cardboard box under the Brooklyn Bridge--I donned my bullet-proof vest for entry into the Manhattan office...
EDWARD BARNES is the only TIME staff member who keeps a bulletproof vest hanging in his office. For most of his career Barnes has specialized in getting incredible stories out of impossible places. While covering the 1991 Persian Gulf War for LIFE magazine, he was so close to the front lines that four Iraqi Republican Guards surrendered to him. Last week when fighting heated up in Sierra Leone, Barnes didn't hesitate. He jetted from New York City to Paris on Tuesday, then traveled through the Ivory Coast and Mali to Guinea, where he caught a Nigerian helicopter into Freetown...
That morning Reuther and his colleagues suspected the day's events could escalate into something historic as they prepared to hand out organizing leaflets (slogan: "Unionism, Not Fordism") to the plant's workers. Reuther had put on his Sunday suit, complete with vest, gold watch and chain. He had invited newspapermen, priests and local officials to be witnesses...
...already seeing the first signs of this power shift. In many companies, engineers wear casual clothes while their managers wear uncomfortable business clothes. By analogy, when you see an organ grinder and his monkey, it's always the monkey who has to wear the uncomfortable red vest and hat. If the monkey had the power, he'd be wearing Dockers. That's all you need to know...