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...other requirements of the role are trickier, more fluid, shifting with the times. The First Lady has no constitutional or statutory duties at all, but she is almost constantly on display, and held to the ephemeral ideals of the moment. Since Eleanor Roosevelt, Presidents' wives have been expected to show some interest in good works, and recent First Ladies have taken that to mean an active concern for the sick or the helpless. Nancy Reagan has devoted her energies to the Foster Grandparents Program, a volunteer child-care organization, and, even more emphatically, to a crusade against drug abuse among...
...part of the its presure campaign, the union has been staging colorful demonstrations, picketing, singing, and selling bumperstickers and shirts. Last month, Yale corporation member Eleanor Holmes Norton came to speak at Boston College and had to avoid hundreds of Yale workers and sympathizers, including Harvard food service workers and secretaries protesting her appearance. Leading the activists in a candlelight vigil was the Reverend Graylan Ellis-Hagler
...Enough water has gone under the bridge for it to be a reminder of the wonderful days again, not the hell of the breakup." That is how ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, 42, explains his decision to rerecord such vintage Beatle classics as Yesterday, Eleanor Rigby and For No One as part of the sound track for the just released Give My Regards to Broad Street, a musical rock-fantasy feature film that he wrote and produced. But while it's getting better all the time for McCartney, the singer is still irked that he does not own the copyrights...
...Schlesinger Library yesterday honored former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt by throwing a 100th birthday party for her at the Radcliffe Yard...
Ware described Roosevelt as "so ahead of her time...we are only now catching up" adding. "If we had been gathered here for Eleanor Roosevelt's 50th birthday rather than her 100th, it would have been her debating George Bush...