Word: hille
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guess it's not hard for me to get advisors or people to talk to or mentors or any of that," says Marya L. Hill-Popper '96, who is involved in Radcliffe's Women's Leadership Project. "But the people that I think, 'Oh, I could be them' or 'I want to do what they do' are all men. I'm not really sure what kind of negative effect it has; but I kind of feel it has a vague negative effect...
...There may be a lot of women involved in leadership positions but it's kind of seen as separate, which is not very good," says Hill-Popper...
...think there are certainly going to be a lot of women leaders who come out of Harvard," says Hill-Popper. "But not necessarily who are conscious of themselves as women leaders but [rather] just as leaders...
...Children's Defense Fund works to fix this disconnect between what Americans say they want for children and what they actually do for them. With offices just a few blocks from Capitol Hill, the Defense Fund stands out among youth advocacy groups for its Washington-based organization and strategic coalitions, its many alliances with state and local groups, and its many service-oriented programs. In the District of Columbia, the Defense Fund has established City Lights, which works with severely troubled adolescents. At what was once the Tennessee farm of Roots author Alex Haley, the Fund conducts leadership training sessions...
...heart of all religion lies a sacred geography, the place where God reaches down to connect the human and the divine. From the time nearly 4,000 years ago when men first settled Mount Zion, a hill that stood out dramatically from its surroundings to betoken the "holy," all successive conquerors have found there an unshakable primal attachment, however different their rites and rituals. But instead of living up to their sacred ideals, the religious conquerors always fell into warfare for sole possession of the place, a battle that goes on unabated as the city enters its fifth millennium...