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...after generations when military service was a prerequisite for elective office -- so that ambitious young men from Harry Truman to George Bush clamored to be in combat -- an unrepentant draft avoider has been elected President. And Bill Clinton says one of his first official acts will be what an agonized hierarchy sees as the gravest challenge ever to military folkways. Their last refuge of traditional masculinity, of an orderly and authoritarian world of moral black and white, is to be opened to admitted homosexuals by Executive Order. The proposed change comes at the same time that a presidential report recommends...
...Harvard Medical School physician, criticized earlier this week for improper promotion of a drug used to combat wrinkles, has been "up front" with her financial ties with the drug's manufacturer, a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) spokesperson said yesterday...
...Harvard Medical School professor was one of several doctors criticized in a congressional report released yesterday for "improper promotion" of a drug used to combat wrinkles and for failing to disclose her financial ties to the drug's manufacturer...
...There have been a lot and a lot of '-isms' in Harvard's long history," Rondeau said, calling efforts to combat racism and sexism partially successful...
...fiercely over such already contentious issues as taxes, spending, deficits, abortion rights -- and ultimately over the Grand Old Party's soul. "It's going to be a typical Republican war," says Wayne Berman, a senior adviser to the Bush campaign. "It will be no-holds-barred, hand-to-hand combat for at least a year...