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...voicemail message in question—“Hey, tubby, answer the phone and then do yourself a favor and get a new haircut”—is a last remnant of normalcy in an otherwise UC-dominated world...
...members who rise to leadership in their groups in order to structure their membership and election processes with increased gender sensitivity. For example, campus groups’ elections often include back-door politicking and schmoozing which is much more likely to be pursued by men as it is a remnant of smoke-filled rooms. Additionally, campus leaders must more effectively reach out to female guest speakers. To kick off Women’s History Month, the IOP is sponsoring a “Women in Politics” series of events that includes a networking luncheon, female guest speakers...
Granted, this is not always a big problem. Artsy kids are friends with artsy kids, athletes are friends with athletes, assholes are friends with assholes. But occasionally, a remnant of this juvenile social hierarchy rears its ugly head, attempting to squash those same individuals it put down in high school. Like when a football player calls you a “little bitch” for no good reason...
...Western tie and jacket, the first high official to do so since the Cultural Revolution. LIKE MOST OF CHINA'S PRESENT LEADERS, ZHAO WAS BRUTALIZED BY THE RED GUARDS. In 1967 he was paraded through the streets of Canton in a dunce's cap and denounced as ?a stinking remnant of the landlord class.' He has come a long way from that parade, and in the process has effected a more substantive revolution of his own. His agricultural reforms as governor of Sichuan (among them: allowing peasants to keep some profits) increased productivity by 25%. They were subsequently adopted...
This week, NCSF will go to court with their biggest initiative yet: a lawsuit challenging the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which prevents the Internet publication of anything understood as obscene by “contemporary community standards.” NCSF charges that this—the last remnant of an act whose other components were judged unconstitutional in a 1997 Supreme Court decision—is a free-speech violation...