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...things being equal, [the new head] should be a woman," Dunn said, drawing cheers from the audience...
...prevailed on the court to stop Virginia from ordering blacks traveling through on interstate buses to move to the back of the bus. But Marshall's greatest victory was in Brown v. Board of Education. That landmark ruling, handed down on May 17, 1954, held that "separate but equal" public schools for blacks and whites violated the Constitution. It caused a firestorm as the South vowed "massive resistance" to school integration. When Marshall appeared on NBC's Youth Wants to Know, Georgia stations replaced the show with a taped address by segregationist Governor Herman Talmadge...
...first and only time in my life, the great city I was born and raised in hit the big time. Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously "dying" for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world "another Calcutta." And why were the American media in Calcutta? For the funeral of an 87-year-old Albanian immigrant by the name of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu...
...Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner, battling and drinking in their epic '50s melodrama. Ernest Hemingway said all great love affairs end in tragedy: either disillusion sets in and people "settle" or separate, or one member of the affair dies, leaving the other alone. By that reckoning, all romances are equal, the more famous ones no better, no worse, no more desperate or idealistic than thousands of others. But five relationships kept us spellbound in the 20th century. Extraordinary because of the attention we lavished on them, they are our emblems of that most irrational of emotions and our insights into...
...vote for women was won the year before I was born. Now women participate more and more on equal terms in society, with equal opportunities and rights. What used to be the agenda of the suffragists is in society today. But we are just beginning to see what women can do and how their creativity can enhance the policies and practices of any field or profession. I recently saw some figures showing that women in America are getting as many professional degrees as men. Wow, I thought, we can pull up our skirts and declare victory--if only parenting were...