Word: helene
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...Reported by Bruce Crumley/Paris, Helen Gibson/London, Marguerite Michaels/New York and Eric Silver/Jerusalem, with other bureaus
...SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO, Helen Miller struck another unlikely blow for organized labor last summer. Miller, a member of the service-employees union who spends seven hours a day tending to a tube-fed stroke victim, fought for and won a change in Illinois law that raised the hourly wages for state-paid, home-health-care aides from $3.35 to $5. As the head of volunteer action for the union local, Miller was the first nurse's aide to testify on behalf of the bill. Now she spends her free time organizing home-health-care workers to demand medical benefits...
...book's second section, Atwood looks outward to mythology, both ancient (Helen of Troy, Troilus and Cressida) and contemporary (Ava Gardner), often weighing in with satirical observations about sexual politics. In "Miss July Grows Older," another version of the modern myth, an aging pin-up girl comes to represent sexual charlatanry of all kinds ("Men were a skill," "Don't get me wrong: with the lights out/I'd still take on anyone"). The narrative voice is reminiscent of the prickly teenage heroine...
...When I was lecturing in Sanders [Theater], there was a pool of black," says Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler, citing her distaste for the large lecture hall...
Last week, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Jeremy R. Knowles made public the names of the faculty members of the new Core Program Review Committee (CPRC): Professors Anthony K. Appiah, John E. Dowling '57, Benedict H. Gross, Stanley Hoffman, Helen H. Vendler and Sidney Verba '53. The student members will be appointed later this year...