Word: stalling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...venture deep into the depths of the basement of Lamont, tiptoe quietly to into the women's bathroom, and slide your way into the first stall on your left, you will find yourself in the midst of an intense debate, worthy of the most alert discussion sections...
...These passionate voices fall on deaf ears. They do not resonate in the public forum of Women's issues at Harvard but have been subjugated to one of the only places women feel they have entirely to themselves--the paint chipped walls of a lone bathroom stall. In a school where discussion of gender issues has been ignored, where women are only guests of finals clubs and not members, where equally talented women silently watch an all-male cast perform the most professional show on campus--these bathroom dialogues should come as no surprise...
...Elian back as tenaciously as the puppy that tugs at his shorts for the TV cameras. Backed by angry street protests in Miami, anti-Castro lawyers and politicos have stormed the courts and Capitol Hill, devising ways--including a congressional subpoena and a possible grant of U.S. citizenship--to stall the boy's return...
Senate Foreign Relations chairman Helms announced plans to make Elian a U.S. citizen when Congress reconvenes Jan. 24--a move that could stall repatriation procedures. Though conservatives regularly uphold the sanctity of the family against intrusions by the government, Helms and others have reversed course in this case. Explains Jose Garcia Pedrosa, a lawyer fighting to keep Elian in the U.S.: "Which kind of a family is a less important factor in how this boy should be raised than which kind of state...