Word: citadel
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...jealousy was typical of women of such "uncommon ugliness." Perhaps remorseful about the lost child and distanced by his absorption with his work--his only real passion--and his growing fame, Mileva became increasingly unhappy. On the eve of World War I, she reluctantly accompanied Einstein to Berlin, the citadel of European physics, but found the atmosphere insufferable and soon returned to Zurich with their two sons...
...Citadel, which has been the unwilling focus of discussions about gender and the law throughout the decade, stands to be the defendant in another benchmark sex-discrimination case. On Tuesday, a federal judge said the South Carolina military academy could stand trial for failing to prevent the hazing of a female cadet who dropped out in 1997. Under federal mandate, the academy grudgingly admitted its first female student in 1995, who left after just six days, complaining of being ostracized by male cadets. Four more women enrolled the next year. Two, Jeanie Mentavlos and Kim Messer, dropped out within...
...reporter and legal analyst Alain Sanders, raising such questions as: Can the same action performed on a man and a woman be considered different under discrimination laws? And do military academies have the same standards as other colleges receiving funding from the federal government? This is one battle the Citadel wishes it didn?t have to fight...
GRADUATED. NANCY RUTH MACE, 21, the first female cadet to finish at the Citadel; in Charleston, S.C. CHIH-YUAN HO, 23, and MELISSA KAY GRAHAM, 21, the first women to complete training at the Virginia Military Institute; in Lexington, Va. Mace, who received her magna cum laude degree from her father, the school's commandant of cadets, also announced her engagement to a classmate...
While single-sex institutions in higher education, like the Citadel (and, closer to home, Radcliffe) are on their way out, single-sex schools are experiencing a revival in primary and secondary schools. Five years ago, the debate in my local newspapers was over the formation of the Malcolm X Academy, one of three alternative public schools for black boys in Detroit. Supporters saw the schools as a potential solution to the social problems that disproportionately affect young black men such as dropout, unemployment and crime...