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Mayo's main objection to Council member Tom E. Woods' selection--the United Daughters of the Confederacy--was much loftier. Dredging up the whole Confederate flag ordeal, Mayo suggests that these ladies exist to offend the likes of Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, rather than to preserve Southern culture. Mayo responds to Woods' description of Moseley-Braun as an "arrogant elite" by suggesting that Peninsula is presumptuous in suggesting that a Black female could actually be an elite. I hope all of those who feel black women are unqualified to be members of the elite are, like Mayo, no longer part...
...talk about "female" morality, "female" learning, "female" leadership. I'm not prepared to give up certain values and ways of doing things simply because of my gender. I don't like it when Phyllis Schafly calls for this, and I don't like it when Harvard Ed School Professor Carol Gilligan calls for it either. Societal prejudices and assumptions do exist, but I refuse to buckle under to them...
...last victor, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, suffered the criticism of Illinois Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, who, as the first Black female senator ever, clearly represents those "arrogant elites." Moseley-Braun wanted the UDC to get rid of the Confederate Flag on their emblem. Fight on, Daughters...
...Christmas Carol. Through Dec. 23. Presented by the Huntington Theatre Company to benefit Globe Santa. $22-$39. 264 Huntington Ave., Boston. Call 931-ARTS for tickets...
Both techniques have proved appealing to students. Carol Ovndo, 12, arrived in Fairfax County from Guatemala three years ago without knowing a word of English. Her immersion in all-English courses rapidly enabled her to become a proficient speaker and reader. "It was scary," she recalls. "But my teacher showed me pictures, and my friends helped, and sometimes we just all acted things out." At the Bell Multi-Cultural High School in Washington, Nguyen Nguyen, 15, who arrived from Vietnam a year ago, takes courses in both his native language and English. "I have to understand in Vietnamese first...