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Shames seems to think the answer to the Radcliffe debate is to reinstitute women's separate but equal education at Harvard. I am opposed to the existence of Radcliffe as it stands, but reading this column enraged me. I am crossing my fingers that the administrators of both Harvard and Radcliffe who are currently engaged in discussion are aware enough of student feelings to know that no one has expressed a concern for any problems whose resolution would take the form of reviving a separate education for women at Harvard...
...Internet is a tool that is especially appealing to many people because it's the great equalizer, making age, gender and appearance irrelevant. Betty Kamen, 72, says many seniors like the Web for that reason. "No one knows that it may have taken you longer to type an answer," says Kamen, a nutrition writer. "If there are minor disabilities, no one knows about...
...they got only some of the answers. Clinton Administration lawyers brandished the privilege they are busy trying to invoke: officers will answer general questions about what they do and where and how, but the minute the queries turn penetrating, out comes the legal Kevlar. Lew Merletti, director of the Secret Service, has made it clear from the start that he will fight Starr all the way to the Supreme Court to prevent his agents from testifying in court. And Starr's prosecutors have been just as unyielding in carrying out their boss's vow to "run down every lead" about...
...bodyguards have almost certainly witnessed a great deal more about the President's private life than they have been willing to divulge. The secret sessions in recent weeks were designed, Justice lawyers say, to help narrow the scope of Starr's questions and, if possible, enable officers to answer them under oath without having to slug out the privilege issue in the courts. Much of the questioning focused on events occurring in the days before Lewinsky's abrupt transfer out of the White House in April 1996. Starr wants to know whether some incident involving the Secret Service triggered...
...didn't Apple do something this bold before? Apple board member William Campbell, CEO of Intuit, says the answer is simple: "They didn't have Steve." Jobs is for once uncharacteristically modest. "A crisis," he says with a shrug, "is a wonderful time to make some changes...