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Alicia Menendez ’05 is a feminist, a final club president and a controversial figure on campus. But to four-year-old Isabel Ros, she’s just the babysitter...
...Isabel puddle-jumps her way across the street, Menendez talks frankly about her history in the finals club scene. When she first joined the Bee, its reputation was of “a bunch of pearl-wearing Charlotte Yorks, and I’m this ethnically ambiguous feminist who wears sweatpants all the time,” she observes, laughing. Menendez says she joined the group to change that stereotype. As the president of the organization, she says she has striven to make the club more racially, ethnically and economically diverse. She is also involved in the search...
When she reaches Isabel’s house, Menendez serves Isabel and her two-year-old brother Augustine a dinner of frozen pizza and carrots. As her young charges pick at their meal, she talks about her desire to have children...
...DIED. ISABEL SANFORD, 86, husky-voiced actress best known as Louise Jefferson on TV's The Jeffersons; in Los Angeles. After years in the theater, she made her movie debut as the loquacious Tillie in the 1967 interracial love story Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. But her defining role came in 1975, when she moved into a "dee-luxe apartment in the sky" in Norman Lear's groundbreaking comedy about an upwardly mobile black family. For 10 years she provided the steadying foil for Sherman Hemsley's peppery George and in 1981 became the first African-American actress...
...away vast amounts of money through their foundation, but Microsoft, the company he co-founded, remains a corporation whose product is no better than it has to be, and Microsoft is being sued for pursuing monopolistic business practices. That too should be included as part of Bill Gates' story. Isabel Best Nyon, Switzerland...