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...would be nicer if it had been bought by Harvard--this is a very old academic community, it has been for many decades, and it could have been used for academic purposes," said Marian C. Schlesinger, who lives a few houses down...
...long time later, Marian Anderson would recall her early years in south Philadelphia. "I'd think, 'Can't I sing? Can't I be a singer because I'm colored?'" Nobody was more entitled to that musical success, proclaims the meticulously researched new biography Marian Anderson: A Singer's Journey (Scribner), by Brandeis professor of music Allan Keiler. By 10 years old, Anderson was already known locally as "the baby contralto." But it would take an uphill fight, time spent in Europe, even the intercession of Eleanor Roosevelt, for her to triumph over discrimination in the U.S. It was only...
...bill that would allow those rearing battery hens to remove the chipped wood from their cages. Several animal researchers complained, saying that hens "need" chipped wood. On the face of it, this seems like a highly anthropomorphic claim. After all, how would one know what chickens need or want? Marian Dawkins, an internationally recognized researcher in animal behavior, designed an extremely clever experiment to address this claim...
Many of our most celebrated authors have achieved success under noms de plume: Samuel Clemens as Mark Twain, Marian Evans as George Eliot and now MICK FOLEY as Mankind. This week Foley, a pro wrestler who has been known as Cactus Jack and Dude Love, will see his first book, Have a Nice Day! A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks, hit No. 2 on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list. In his memoir Foley relates how he overcame broken bones, a lost ear and a worthy opponent named "the Rock" to win the World Wrestling Federation belt last...
...Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund, opened a weekend symposium at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) with a call to women to unify and become a more powerful force in politics and religion...