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...Like a Lion. She pauses and sips a glass of white wine. She chain-smokes. She is a handsome woman with big brown eyes, hair closely cropped and a straw hat on top of a patterned scarf. There are two long earrings in each ear, and one nostril is pierced. Five years ago, to cast off her middle-class upbringing, she outfitted herself with Zulu names. Ntozake literally means "She who comes with her own thing," and Shange means "One who walks like a lion." She was born Paulette Williams, and "named after my father because he wanted...
...argue the case for Loyalism in his Letters of a Westchester Farmer ("If I must be enslaved, let it be by a KING at least, and not by a parcel of upstart, lawless Committeemen. If I must be devoured, let me be devoured by the jaws of a lion, and not gnawed to death by rats and vermine"). Instead of being devoured, he was kidnaped and imprisoned for a month by a marauding band of Connecticut Patriots...
This year he urged quicker military action against the Rebels on Lord Sandwich, the First Lord of the Admiralty, adding that "we must show that the English lion when roused has not only his wonted resolution, but has added the swiftness of the race horse." A more compromising or less obstinate man might yet regain the Colonists' loyalty, but George, who is in many ways a model King, lacks a very important royal virtue -flexibility...
Although Harvard does not literally control the decisions reached by the board, it is capable of exerting a lion's share of influence on any given matter--indeed, on any legal matter at all--simply by virtue of the quality and quantity of its legal know-how. Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, and the law firm of Ropes and Gray, working in tandem on the District 65 case, provided a seemingly airtight defense for the University--one which the regional board apparently took so seriously that it chose to quote the Harvard brief at length...
...exMarine, a Rhodes scholar, an Army officer in Viet Nam, a West Point history teacher, author of a best-selling antimilitary novel (The Lion-heads) and now president of a women's college, Josiah Bunting, 36, has a unique vantage point on the academy's current troubles. Last week TIME Correspondent Eileen Shields talked with Bunting at Briarcliff, north of New York City and only 20 miles from the Point. Excerpts...