Word: rainey
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PSLM members Benjamin L. McKean '02, Daniel M. Hennefeld '99, Elizabeth C. Vladeck '99, Eleanor I. Benko '02 and graduate student Joel Rainey sat down with Ryan and PWC Manager Randy Rankin to discuss Harvard's intent to hire PWC to monitor companies that manufacture University apparel...
Before embarking on his acclaimed cycle of plays on black life in the 20th century (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson), Wilson penned this early work about the denizens of a gypsy-cab company in Pittsburgh, Pa., in the late 1970s. Now, given a "definitive" rewrite by the author, it has been revived in a superlative production at the Center Stage, in Baltimore, Md. With little obvious effort, Wilson rivets our attention on the daily struggles of a half-dozen ordinary but entirely individual characters while gradually homing in on the explosive conflict between two: the cab company...
...time Ivy League Player of the Year and four-time NSCAA All American, Stauffer is only the second Harvard student ever to win the award. The other recipient was two time Olympian Meredith Rainey...
Among the outstanding Harvard athletes to be recognized are track Olympian Meredith L. Rainey '90 and Allison S. Feaster '98, a first round draft pick in the Women's National Basketball Association...
Gertrude ("Ma") Rainey, known as the mother of the blues, stands at the juncture of rural country blues and a more urban form that reached its peak with the popularity of her protege, Bessie Smith. As the first broadly known traveling blues woman, Rainey represented for many women in her audiences a tangible incarnation of freedom. A pioneer on the black entertainment circuit, she shaped women's blues for many generations. As blues singer Koko Taylor said, women like "Ma" Rainey were the foundation of the blues...