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...DIED. FUKI KUSHIDA, 101, peace activist and pioneer of the Japanese women's liberation movement; in Tokyo. The soft-spoken community leader, widowed at 35, worked as a magazine reporter and insurance agent to support her two children. A founding member of the post-war Federation of Japanese Women's Organizations, which today has almost 1 million members, Kushida lobbied for gender equality and the elimination of nuclear weapons. Protesting militarism to the end, wheelchair-bound Kushida led a 2,000-person march in Tokyo in February 1999, the month she turned...
...hasn't been a great millennium for British theater. Having spent most of the past fifty years riding high on the post-war victory of the Labor Party, which made it a priority for the first time in England's history to establish a large pool of public funds specifically directed at the theater, the entire dramatic community seems to still be in a state of shock at the now 20-year old cuts that Margaret Thatcher's administration made on the Labor Party's bounty. And though funding has been on the rise again since the Blairs moved...
...success of the House in the post-War decades did not come to an end because of randomization. Its erosion had been taking place for years, the result of social changes at the College that were in many ways incompatible with the way the Houses had functioned...
...married couples moved into the Hotel Brunswick to find that their post-war life would begin in a one-bedroom apartment with no kitchen and a twin...
...war had caused a strange division in the Class of 1950. The military men were in their early twenties, mature from their war experiences, often married. The civilian first years were younger than their pre-war counterparts had been. Twenty percent of first years were under 18 when they arrived at Harvard in 1946, and a handful of 15-year olds entered with each post-war class...