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...Mirjana Markovic (Ph.D. in sociology) is easy to mock in effigy. Dowdy but vain, she dyes her hair jet black and often tucks a single plastic flower in it. No one is allowed to imitate the style in her presence. Indeed, no one is allowed to see her brush her hair, not even the President. He once walked in while she was grooming, and she began to weep. She also wept as a teenager whenever she did not get the highest marks in class. She was obsessed with Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, who mourned for a slain brother...
Employees at Texaco Inc. had noticed the glass ceiling for some time. But the idea only became accepted when tapes revealed that senior executives used race as a factor in determining promotions. In most cases, the existence of glass ceilings are very difficult to prove, and minority employees who brush up against the glass ceiling are not so lucky to have their fears confirmed by a tape...
...justified to punish me for the article. Although the Ad Board's decision still irks me, I am more concerned with the injustice that will be meted out by the Ad Board in the future if something is not done. Before the Ad Board is able to brush this incident under the table, we, the members of the Harvard-Radcliffe community, should call for student representation on the Ad Board...
...group spotted and approached one elephant ahead of it, but didn't see another in the brush to its left until it was in a position to charge them...
...German scholars, Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, but since the publication of its 37th volume in 1950, it has tried to do no more than issue occasional volumes of updates. Even that is a task comparable to repainting the Brooklyn Bridge with a nail-polish brush. Thieme-Becker is not, in any case, translated into English...