Word: connaught
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After graduating from Radcliffe, Connaught O’Connell Mahony took a crash course in secretarial skills and joined the workforce. She worked for the Republican State Committee, helping to organize Women’s Republican Clubs and Young Republican Clubs throughout Massachusetts. After she married and had her first child, she became a full-time volunteer—in the first class of women to become docents at the Museum of Fine Arts. She helped to found the Beacon Hill Nursery School nearly 50 years ago. She also founded a reading group with two other women, modeled...
...says many Sierra Leoneans believe the disease is a Western conspiracy to deprive Africans of pleasure and fill the coffers of foreign aid groups. "They tell me AIDS stands for American Intentions to Discourage Sex," says Moses, sitting in his tiny, file-filled office in Freetown's moldering Connaught Hospital. "Or people think you have come to aid them. The word confuses them. One thought I wanted to build him a house...