Word: activist
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Ware is "transgendered," which means her mental gender--her deepest awareness of her identity--doesn't correspond to the parts she was born with. Though she has become an activist in the past year or so, Ware struggled with these feelings for years. Now, at 45, she is happy with her inner and outward selves, the latter feminized with hormones and women's clothes. Ware isn't yet "transsexual," but she does plan to undergo what doctors call "sex-reassignment surgery" when she and her beau David can afford it; it will cost about as much as their new Nissan...
...addition to Healey and Gelb, the programs will be overseen by a committee of nine members, which includes Alan Brinkley, an author and history professor at Columbia University; Nicholas Lemann, an author and Washington Editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Kari Marton, author and human rights activist and Vartan Gregorian, the president of The Carnegie Corporation and former president of Brown University...
...same for outdoor-equipment company Coleman--both efforts on behalf of controlling shareholder Ronald Perelman. Levin's selection is no accident. On March 2, Perelman sold Coleman to Sunbeam in a stock swap, and he is now Sunbeam's second-largest investor, with a 13% stake. The largest is activist money manager Michael Price, who controls 17%. As a measure of how quickly Dunlap's career unraveled, Price only two weeks earlier had publicly, emphatically supported Dunlap. But he became as willing as anyone for the ax to fall...
Eyre and Alexie are also lining up future projects. Eyre is readying a biopic about imprisoned activist Leonard Peltier. Alexie plans on directing a script based on his 1996 book Indian Killer, sort of a Native American Psycho involving a murderer who scalps his victims. Though he'll continue with novels and poetry, Alexie has staked out his new territory. "I love the way movies have more power than books," he says. "They continue the oral tradition, the way we all sit around the fire and listen to stories." And in them, the Indians...
Sykes' own experience as an aborigine atHarvard has encouraged her to pursue thefoundation. The first aborigine to graduate fromHarvard University, Sykes is not only a famousauthor but a fervent activist for aboriginerights...