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...From the street, the Mather House master's residence appears as a windowless brick fortress. But inside, enormous rooms, vaulted ceilings and incredible square footage turn the citadel into a castle. While most castles are stone-cold, this one has heated floors. Although interior brick and concrete walls present a formidable obstacle to home decorating, the masters have risen to the occasion. "The architecture challenges us to make it human and warm," explains Sandra Naddaff, Mather House master for seven years. Colorful furniture, like a pair of camel-back blue couches and a massive painting of the Taj Mahal...
...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...