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...structures of the Internet, it is run by an unelected board of directors and is not accountable to the public in the same way that governmental bodies must be. The directors may be very qualified; they include former Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson, and the board is led by Esther Dyson, a respected thinker on Internet issues. However, qualification is not the same as democratic choice. Although the corporation claims to exercise no governmental authority, given its position as a standards-setting organization in an area in which governments have abdicated control, the public interest demands that it become...
...dummy. Although Hadassah is, in fact, the name of the Women's Zionist Organization of America, it has also been a first name since biblical times. It means, literally, myrtle, and in the book of Esther it is mentioned as the alternate name (or, in some translations, the Hebrew name) for Esther herself. No, there is no book of Tipper in the Bible...
...Wendy H. Liu '03 and Esther S. Yoo '01worked together to found Students for Healthy Babies, a group designed to "increase awareness about health issues," especially with young mothers...
...even sometimes hilarious, to have these lives of old stars (especially Taylor's) to carry with us into the new millennium. Gerald Clarke has done a fine, if sad, job on Judy Garland (Get Happy; Random House). Esther Williams has published an unexpectedly spirited memoir (The Million Dollar Mermaid; Simon & Schuster) in which she reveals, among other things, that she did not marry the ripple-jawed Jeff Chandler in the '50s because he liked to dress up in women's clothes ("You're too big to wear polka dots," she told...
...comforting, it's even sometimes hilarious, to have these lives of old Hollywood stars (especially Taylor's) to carry with us into the new millennium. Esther Williams recently published an unexpectedly spirited memoir in which she revealed, among other things, that she did not marry the ripple-jawed Jeff Chandler in the '50s because he liked to dress up in women's clothes ("You're too big to wear polka dots," she told...