Word: barbarae
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...shook hands with a newly inaugurated Warren Harding and years later wrote speeches for F.D.R.; lapsed conservative Michael Lind, whose literary credits include an epic poem on the siege at the Alamo; Dan Yergin, an energy expert who has lately been extolling the virtues of the global economy; and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, one of the first social scientists to identify the serious, long-term costs of divorce...
...Santa Barbara, the soap-opera resort by the sea, is no cauldron of ethnic conflict. Founded by Spanish friars in the 18th century, it has evolved into a complacent retirement community where Latinos, a third of the population, work mostly in low-wage jobs, waiting tables and tending lawns. They rarely challenge the Anglo establishment. But last week, as the school board was preparing to scrap the city's 25-year-old bilingual-education program, 400 Latino families called a three-day strike, boycotting schools and setting up an alternative academy in a community center. At a boisterous public hearing...
...recipient of this honor, Bailyn joins intellectual luminaries such as Robert Penn Warren, Saul Bellow, Barbara Tuchman and Toni Morrison, all of whom were chosen to deliver past Jefferson Lectures in the Humanities
...Barbara Grossman, a past Bunting Fellow, drama professor at Tufts and a member of the National Council on the Arts, said she was "struck by [Smith's] willingness to use herself, her body and her passion, as the bridge to touch us, to move us and to galvanize us into action...
...Eighty percent of what was in my [1995] bill was in the Barbara Jordan report," he said, referring to the commission on immigration chaired by the late Democrat from Texas, the first black woman to serve in the House of Representatives from the deep South...