Word: reddã
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...Glamour magazine in the women’s studies department lounge last fall, she didn’t realize she would soon continue a 45-year tradition of Radcliffe and Harvard winners of the magazine’s “Top 10 College Women” competition. Redd??s many accomplishments—including being the highest-earning black American on a game show (for winning $250,000 on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”) and co-authoring a Princeton Review book called The Girls’ Guide to the SAT: Tips...
...beginning of the first round, Redd and Boulerice were at a standstill. A large, unsightly vein protruded from Boulerice’s neck as he complained, “What is the point of this?” At the three-minute mark, however, Boulerice began to take over. Redd??s head shook so much the other competitors feared it might roll off. Redd seemed to share their fear, suddenly giving up. Perhaps remembering his elimination from the “Jeopardy!” College Tournament last year, he bowed his head, looking up only...
...Harvard, agrees that black students, even at Harvard, can feel attacked on a daily basis. His blocking group is three black males and three black females. “I don’t think I saw myself as having any other options,” he says. In Redd??s opinion, black students hanging out together can be a matter of survival. Association of Black Harvard Women President Kimberly H. Levy ’03 says “self-segregation” might be better termed “self-empowerment...
...addition to being a 4-H benefactor, Redd is now also an official 4-H national spokesperson. In a strange series of coincidences, the mother of the program’s national public relations director happened to catch Redd??s mention of 4-H on “Millionaire” and beseeched her daughter to get Redd more heavily involved in the organization. Redd was receptive to the offer and will now travel monthly to deliver speeches to groups of children. This is actually familiar territory for Redd??last spring, she commuted to New York...
...While Redd??s resume boasts of her “Millionaire” success, her book deal and her contribution to the 4-H Club, in person she admits she is most proud of her less concrete accomplishments. She says she is happy that after two and a half years at Harvard she has maintained her wits, stayed sane and done proud her mom and the citizens of her hometown—Martinsville...