Word: lettering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the letter printed in The Crimson points out that women are performing the operations on children (with obviously a sexist intention), as expert on the subject, I must state it is quite true in most cases, women are the operators: but the operations would stop in Africa tomorrow if men would not require them. African men refuse to marry girls who are not excised or infibulated (depending on the ethnic group); therefore, women who have no alternative than marriage are compelled to perform the operations on their own children...
...result of that view--most recently stated in his fifth open letter--Bok has strengthened the appointments process in many of the faculties and, unlike his counterparts elsewhere, chairs every ad hoc committee to review tenure appointments. At the proceedings, for which Bok takes anywhere from six to 20 hours to prepare, the lawyer-turned-president, one Faculty member close to the process says, "takes an active and leading part in questioning the witnesses from the departments." Departments know that they cannot slide a candidate past Bok, who turns down 10 to 15 per cent of all recommendations...
...refused to clear up the confusion for two reasons. First, he did not want to endanger the Administration's still secret efforts to pressure the Revolutionary Council into taking control of the hostages. Second, he and other top Administration officials were frankly puzzled by the purported letter to Khomeini. Who had written...
...maze of back streets in Beirut to a nondescript building that currently serves as headquarters for the armed of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Young men armed with AK-47s guarded his office; a portrait of Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini hung on one wall. Arafat was finishing a letter to the Ayatullah when his guests arrived. Some of the points he made in a 90-minute conversation...
That idea was given a forceful public statement last month by Professor Yacob Talmon, a leading historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a staunch Zionist. In a letter to the Tel Aviv daily Ha'aretz, Talmon acidly denounced Begin's autonomy idea as "an archaic concept, a trick to shut the Gentile's mouth." Talmon argued that similarly limited autonomy plans had never worked in the past and charged that the government's territorial and settlement policy not only contributed to the corruption of the Israeli people but also violated "the vital Zionist...