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...circulated in the Iraqi press calling Albright a serpent, she decided to wear the snake pin--in lieu of a name tag--when meeting with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz. Albright says the bumblebee reminds her of Muhammad Ali's motto, "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee," which could well be her slogan too. Look for the balloon when the Secretary is feeling up, and for the Capitol when she is trying to be at her bipartisan best. Other brooches, like the spider web, she simply finds alluring...
...decide to do some digging and eventually I'm on the phone with Rachel L. Barenbaum '98, the Bee's president and sure enough, a Crimson editor. After she prods me to tell her how I learned of her association with the Club, she explains graciously that the "Sewing Bee" started out at the time of the Civil War, later dying out before it was resurrected...
...preferring not to be named relayed) and has a membership hovering around 25 women. Barenbaum informs me that it holds date events, non-date events and generally "gives women a chance to hang out socially." But beside the gender of its members and the matter of real estate (the Bee has no house), as far as she's concerned, it's "like any social club on campus...
...fact, "the Bee is part of the Inter-Club Council," she tells me, and I'm surprised. That the stuffy alumni of Harvard's elite social clubs would absorb a women's group into their ranks is a sign of progress, I decide...
...there's a catch. When I push further about the nature of the Bee's involvement, Barenbaum clarifies: the Bee is an "honorary member," she says, not terribly eager to explain what such status entails...