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Gentry High School in Indianola, Miss. is not a safety school for Eleanor G. Brennan ’02-’03. If she’s lucky, she’ll end up teaching there or another public high school in the Mississippi Delta, New Orleans or New Mexico, among other places, through Teach For America (TFA), a non-profit organization that places recent grads in teaching positions in some of the country’s most underachieving, understaffed schools. Last year, TFA saw its applicant pool triple from the usual 5,000 to a whopping...
...secure. Elsey and the handful of other aides who were on duty around the clock wheeled Roosevelt because his personal valet was not allowed in the room. "One glance at the map showing the convoys headed for the African coast could tell the story," says Elsey, also recalling when Eleanor Roosevelt brought China's Mme. Chiang Kai-shek unannounced into the Map Room, causing great consternation. It never happened again...
...Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson spoke last night at the Institute of Politics after little pre-event fanfare and in total security. After a typically cordial introduction that emphasized her achievements as president of Ireland, Robinson delivered an uncontroversial speech entitled “Making Human Rights Matter: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Time Has Come.” It was a far cry from an earlier event that focused on Robinson’s leadership...
...Carpenter, a panel speaker who worked with Elizabeth Dole in her failed bid for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination, simply answers that the rules are different for women candidates than they are for men. Eleanor Clift, whose book Madam President examines the barriers to women’s executive leadership, agreed that the standards are drastically different for women, but she added, “women should not have to apologize for wanting a seat at the table” considering they make up half of the population and vote in greater numbers than...
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, who Galbraith called the largest political influences in his life, ruled America as if it were an extension of their Hyde Park home, Galbraith said...