Word: karens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great secret that junior captain Ian Carswell and senior Karen Goetze were darn good. Carswell was the defending Heptagonal Championships winner and an NCAA qualifier, while Goetze led Harvard to its first Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular championship in eight years...
Other Key Players: Karen Goetze '97-'96, Jenny Martin '97, Margaret Schotte '99, Christine Sheppard-Sawyer...
...city seemed to whisper, Beware religion. Not even a strictly professional observer could miss the spiritual vibrations that emanated from those ancient walls and shrines, infecting every aspect of social and political life. In her immensely erudite chronicle Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths (Knopf; 427 pages; $30), Karen Armstrong, British author of the best-selling A History of God, delineates how, quite literally, the stones of Jerusalem came to embody the deepest faith and identity of the three religions of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam. In so doing, even in a determinedly nonpolemical book, she arrives at some suggestive ideas about...
While the first act of "Ordinary People" is depressing, the second act builds the audience's spirits back up, so that by the end a glimmer of hope has actually broken through Conrad's darkness. Unlike his friend Karen, Conrad manages to survive. He sings that he has learned from the people he has met and there are "A lot of things I'd like to change, but I'll take what I can get." In the program, director Victor Chiu asks the audience to remember this as the musical's message: "This Hope. Have faith in it. Take...
...female temp force has mushroomed more than 85%. Yet only 8% of temps receive health benefits; pensions, vacations and sick days are virtually unheard of. In some cases, those part-time jobs are second jobs: in 1971, 20% of moonlighters were women; today almost half are. The trend, says Karen Nussbaum, who is heading a new women's bureau at the AFL-CIO, is that "more family hours are going into the paid work force now than ever before to maintain the standard of living...