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...Lillian J. Epstein '00, a returning council member now in Leverett House, participated in the council's recruiting efforts...
...also traveling a few years in the future when, the movie's makers imagine, feminist pressure to accord women full military equality, by allowing them to serve even in the riskiest specialties, has become irresistible. Irresistible, that is, when that pressure is applied to the Pentagon by wily Lillian DeHaven, a U.S. Senator whose scheming soul Anne Bancroft inhabits with rip-snorting relish. The brass, of course, expect O'Neil to fail and prove their patronizing assumptions about gals in combat. There even comes a moment when the Senator, faced with base closings in her state, is willing to trade...
...Lillian E. Bryant, 53, knew just what to do, and so did several other residents of Horace Bryant Jr. Drive in Atlantic City, N.J. They looked that man in the eye, pointed to the door and told him to get lost. "It's total arrogance," fumes Bryant, who had one more reason than her neighbors to be ticked off. The street she lives on is named after her father, a former state banking and insurance commissioner who died in 1983. She and her mother Lillian W., 86, wouldn't think of leaving. "I can't," Lillian W. says...
...Tell me about it," says Lillian E., a retired city employee who heard the same hustle when the casinos came to town 20 years ago. Today, Bryant's neighborhood is the last stable, middle-class, mostly black area in all of boom-or-bust Atlantic City. Bryant says she's not against new casinos, she's against uprooting good neighborhoods so outsiders can pretend they're in Shangri-La. "Steve Wynn must have something good on these people. The state is bickering about having to pay $200 million for public education by an order of the Supreme Court, but they...
...legal term meaning "we can do anything we want." But the Bryants and their neighbors--Gussie Ellis and her family of five, and Pierre Hollingsworth's family of three, which rents from a local minister--are digging in. The street was named after a man who stood for something, Lillian W. said in her living room. "My husband was a fighter, and he wouldn't have allowed this. We're not going anywhere...