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...resolutions? A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that moderate exercise can be crucial for postmenopausal women who want to lower their risk of heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and some cancers. Not only does exercise promote good health overall but it also reduces intra-abdominal fat deposits--fat stored around the organs deep within the abdomen--that are a hidden risk factor for many chronic illnesses...
...racial issues were roiling campuses across the South, some chapters of Sigma Nu fraternity in the Northeast were considering admitting African-American members, a move that would have sent a powerful statement through the tradition-bound world of sororities and fraternities. At the time, Lott was president of the intra-fraternity council at the University of Mississippi. When the issue came to a head at Sigma Nu's national convention - known as a "Grand Chapter" - in the early 1960s, "Trent was one of the strongest leaders in resisting the integration of the national fraternity in any of the chapters," recalls...
While many candidates are running for office unopposed within their party—for them the primary is a moot exercise—today will also see several fierce intra-party battles resolved...
...virtue or, at least, of perceived romantic appeal. Like Griffith, Micheaux's feminine ideal seemed to be prim, virginal Lillian Gish; he insisted that his actresses wear chalk makeup to make them seem whiter, lighter - Gishier. "The first offense of the new film is its persistent vaunting of intra-racial color fetishism, "wrote the black critic Theophilus Lewis, reviewing a 1931 Micheaux talkie, "Daughter of the Congo," in the New York Amsterdam News. "Even if the picture possessed no other defects, this artificial association of nobility with lightness and villainy with blackness would be enough to ruin...
Marett also remembers staging an intra-club scrimmage which caught the attention of fans watching a nearby Harvard baseball game. When the baseball game ended, the fans drifted to the next field to watch the rugby team play...