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...receiving support from deaf people across the U.S. The reason is that this 100-acre campus, only a mile northeast of Capitol Hill, is a Mecca for the hearing impaired. Since it was founded by an Act of Congress in 1864, Gallaudet has become one of the world's foremost training centers for the deaf. And yet it has never had a hearing-impaired president -- the result, say students and staff, of paternalistic attitudes by a hearing world that perpetuates the myth that deaf people cannot function on their own. Comparing today's demands by deaf people with the black...
...Columbia. At a campaign staff meeting, Atwater tells the eight others present, "First and foremost, things went great in Vermont yesterday. This will give us a good head of steam . . . What's today?" Campaign Aide Warren Tompkins: "Jeb Bush at 3:30 at the Veterans Memorial. The Governor will be in Greenville attacking Dole's textile votes." Atwater: "I'd do it in Spartanburg." Press Aide Barbara Pardue suggests that since Pat Robertson was endorsed the previous day by Cowboy Roy Rogers, the Bush campaign should seek a rival endorsement from the Lone Ranger. Laughter...
When looking for players for her team, the Crimson's coach doesn't look for basketball talent first. Foremost, she tries to find people with the personality to fit her team philosophy, passing up great basketball talents who didn't fit the Harvard women's basketball mold...
...campus in the 1970s, Horner's activism petered out. Radcliffe failed to take the lead when the University reviewed its harassment policy a few years ago and when the creation of a Women's Studies concentration was debated. Radcliffe may have built up one of the nation's foremost Women's Studies research centers, but Harvard was one of the last major universities to create a Women's Studies concentration...
...outspoken opponent of apartheid, Anthony Bloom, chief executive of the Premier Group, a giant milling concern that had sales last year of $3.1 billion, has long been one of South Africa's foremost liberal businessmen. His company was among the earliest to recognize the anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising as a workers' holiday...