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National feminist leaders, however, argue that what's important is the symbolic value of Feinstein's candidacy and that she has evolved with the times, like many women. "I've lived a feminist life," Feinstein says in her own defense. "I had to quit a job because there was no maternity leave. I raised a child as a single mother. I put together legislation. I haven't been a marcher, but I've lived...
...male student in the face with a well-aimed snowball, he and some buddies retaliated by handcuffing her to a urinal and photographing her in that humiliating situation. No one, including Dreyer, reported the incident, but when her father complained, Dreyer, who had previously talked of enrolling at Caltech, quit the academy...
...mind as well. On his half-hour train commutes from his suburban bungalow, he had begun a novel, jotting scenes in a spiral notebook. Given these conditions, the book lurched along fitfully, and Turow often felt that Presumed Innocent would never be finished. "Eventually Annette told me to quit my job and get that book out of my system." He took the late summer of 1986 off and submitted a manuscript two weeks before reporting for work at his new firm. "I hoped that I had crossed the great divide between popular and serious fiction, but at times I thought...
...would succeed Lee Iacocca as head of Detroit's No. 3 auto company. A quietly self-assured master of finance, Greenwald helped save Chrysler from bankruptcy in the 1970s by cutting production costs and lining up Government financing. But Greenwald stunned Detroit last week with his decision to quit the troubled automaker in order to lead the proposed $4.4 billion employee buyout of UAL, the parent company of United Air Lines...
...five years, we traveled all over the world. We quit in 1945. Then in 1948 there's the Berlin Airlift, and again it was boom, boom, boom. We went to Korea in 1950 -- and we never stopped. We started in Vietnam in 1964, right up until about 1972, every year. Those kids were so grateful that you would come to them...