Word: isabell
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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...
...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...
McCall Smith, on extended leave from his job, is prolific. He has written more than 30 children's books (he has two daughters--one at college, the other younger) and a monograph on the criminal law of Botswana. A new series of books about Isabel Dalhousie, a female gumshoe in Edinburgh, is well under way; the first installment, The Sunday Philosophy Club, is due out in September. A satirical novel about academics, Portuguese Irregular Verbs, is expected in early 2005. And the sixth Ramotswe book is already finished. How does he manage it all? "I'm very lucky," he says...