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...more compelling case for bringing women into the clubs is that the existing groups offer benefits that even a newly formed co-ed club could not. Given that around 80 percent of job openings are never publicized, alumni with such connections have a spectacular advantage over their similarly-credentialled counter-parts. Restricting club membership to men denies women access to this base of support, effectively penalizing them for their gender and exacerbating the discrimination that they will eventually face in the business world. If women were allowed to enter final clubs, the argument reasons, they could at least graduate from...
...Crimson placed in three of eight spots in the 400 freestyle relay, three-of-seven in the 200 butterfly and 400 medley relay, four-of-eight in the 100 freestyle and a spectacular six-of-eight in the 50 freestyle...
...should one have expected anything less-than-spectacular from Tracy Saturday night against Brown, when ESPN2 picked up the feed? (By the way, that marked the first national telecast ever from Bright Hockey Center...
This is a real big victory for the U.C.," proudly proclaimed one Rudd W. Coffey '97 only a couple of weeks ago, referring to his spectacular role in extending the ticket deadline for the Harvard-Yale Game. The falsity of that audacious statement now raises serious credibility questions for one of the more outspoken and diligent members of the Undergraduate Council...
...know this trajectory, and we have been, many of us, witnesses to this legend. But it is the particular and spectacular achievement of Last Train to Memphis that it holds both the making of the history and the beginning of the myth in a firm, simple and compassionate focus, concentrating on the four years from Elvis' first success to his entrance into the Army in 1958. (A planned second volume will chronicle the years, many of them melancholy, that followed.) Guralnick, an excellent music critic, concentrates on narrative here, and writes evocatively, empathetically, of Elvis' roots and dreams...