Word: civilizations
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During the Civil War, the women of Cambridgeformed a sewing bee--a circle of women whoconvened weekly to sew uniforms for the Unionsoldiers. Members naturally formed friendshipsover the long hours spent together working, andwhen the war ended, the group continued to meet asa book club and social outlet...
...late 1980s, a group of Harvard womendecided they wanted a female version of theall-male final clubs already on campus. Deborah E.Lipson '95, a former Bee president, says aRadcliffe alum told the budding organization ofthe Civil War group and the 14 founding membersadopted the name...
...daughter and divorced while moving through a succession of federal secretarial positions that culminated in 12 years as confidential assistant to the director of ACTION, the agency that ran the Peace Corps. It was at ACTION that she met the man who is her husband of 10 years, retired civil servant Robert Currie. And it was at ACTION that she first tasted scandal, in 1979, when Congress investigated charges that the agency had given grants to its friends. "Everyone else was panicked," says Anthony Podesta, the Clinton aide's brother, who was a consultant to ACTION during the mess...
...statement read, "The state should not interfere with same gender couples who choose to marry and share fully and equally in the rights, responsibilities and commitments of civil marriage...
Looking at Asian American voice in the political process reveals similar processes of silencing. A 1992 report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights identified numerous structural barriers to APA voting, such as apportionment schemes that in Los Angeles, for example, split APA populations across electoral districts, inadequate publication of multilingual ballots and voting literature and redistricting distortions caused by undercounting in the census. Moreover, the report identifies longstanding bias in the major parties against Asian American politicians...