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REPORTED KILLED. MARGARET HASSAN, 59, director of the relief group Care International in Iraq; apparently by gunmen who abducted her in Baghdad on Oct. 19; as reported by her family and Arabic news network al-Jazeera, which received a video that appeared to show her being shot in the head. The Irish-born aid worker fell in love with Iraq after moving there with her Iraqi-born husband in 1972. Through Saddam Hussein's rule and Gulf War bombings she stayed, learning Arabic and converting to Islam. She became a spokeswoman for Iraqi children suffering in the wake...
President Bush proved again last week that he's not afraid to surround himself with powerful women, choosing Harriet Miers as his chief counsel, Margaret Spellings as head of the Education Department and Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State. Rice leads the eye-popping list of ladies at the top as the first African-American woman to hold that title. But some of the surprising examples of the glass ceiling cracking can be found in faraway places, miles from Washington...
Hollings: The women [Senators] have made a material change. [In the late 1960s] we had one gal, Margaret Chase Smith. You'd never hear from her. Now you can't shut them up. We've got 14, and they're outstanding...
...Senior 48 are: Jonathan P. Abel, Rebecca J. Alaly, Ronen Ben-Efraim, Danielle V. Brown, Bethany A. Burum, Stephanie Tzu-Ying Chang, Eugene Chislenko, Jeffrey P. Clemens, Melissa L. Dell, Nicholas D. Elprin, Jonathan S. Gnoza, Caroline A. Gross, Liora R. Halperin, Veronica R. Heller, Andrew E. Holm, Margaret T. Hsieh, Honor Hsin, Andy Itsara, Jennie A. Johnson, Nicholas F. M. Josefowitz, also a Crimson editor, Emily A. Kendall, David V. Kimel, Mihuan Li, Chang C. Liu, Raluca I. Manea, Shankar A. Nair, Max C. Nicholas, Antonio L. Perez, Shira R. A. Pinnas, Alexander J. Post, Karl C. Procaccini, Krishna...
...Margaret DeAngelis, an ophthalmology researcher at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, said that more work still needs to be done, but she recognizes the potential benefits of further research. “Though this work is still preliminary,” she said, “this finding is exciting and certainly holds promise for future study and treatment of retinal diseases...