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...fetal heart monitor to the Peltier Business Plan Competition at the University of Texas at Tyler this week. The trio, along with James D. Moran ’05, established LONO Medical Systems and has designed the prototype for a small wireless device that can attach to an expectant mother??s abdomen during pregnancy...
When it was time to raise her three children, my mother??a Harvard graduate, an attorney, and a self-proclaimed feminist—decided to quit working to commit herself full-time to motherhood. A few years later, she returned to work part-time, allowing her to keep her foot in the door as a partner in a law firm, lobby for environmental causes, and volunteer at my siblings’ elementary school. Far from abandoning personal happiness for childrearing, she, like many women, found motherhood fulfilling—a choice that too many feminists view...
...many feminists, however, my mother??s actions are dismaying. In her 2005 book “Are Men Necessary?,” The New York Times sweetheart Maureen Dowd bemoans this apparent lack of commitment to the feminist cause among so many modern ladies. Increasingly, Dowd fears, women are willing to opt out of careers to be professional mommies, forgoing jobs for juice boxes. These mothers are blind to the tooth-and-nail fights of the generations before them—the fights to have jobs and to hold professional degrees. This recent trend, she implies...
...portrays the youthful awkwardness and apprehension associated with participation in these spelling contests. However, Dr. Larabee’s initial aloofness and tough coaching—an uncharacteristic role for the hardboiled and theatrically-trained Fishburne—is replaced by tough love and eventually fatherly warmth. Unfortunately, the mother??s preoccupation with her multiple jobs left Bassett portraying a role with little depth; however, it was nice to see her chiseled arms showcased in yet another movie.At times the movie appears to be a hybrid between “The Karate Kid?...
...following track, is a jaunty ode to gambling addiction. Eleanor opines that she’s become “bored of her old life and decent odds” before stealing her roommates debit card, moving to Jakarta, and losing the deed to her boyfriend’s mother??s mansion in a high-stakes card game. The details of this larceny are recounted against the carefree jangle of Matthew’s showtune worthy keyboards. The Furnaces aren’t all fun and games, however. The album’s strongest track...