Word: regina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even women who are willing and financially able to press their case with a private lawyer may find hidden costs. In 1987, Regina Rhodes filed charges against the owners of the Apollo Theater in Harlem after they refused to take seriously her complaints of unwelcome overtures from a co-worker and eventually fired her. In March she won an $85,000 judgment, but the case is still not over. The theater owners' appeal now proceeds through the New York court system. And the litigation has hurt her professionally. "I had to change the kind of work I was doing...
...began my apprenticeship when I was in fifth grade. Dr. Fitzsimmons continued to teach me about bees and prairie plants until mid-high school, when I had to abandon beekeeping for academic pursuits. In ninth grade, I struck up a friendship with Regina, the youngest of his nine children. We were united in adversity against the hypocrisies of our respective schools, both singlesex pre schools...
...said, however, we haven't talked since early 1990. I never quite figured out why (and now it doesn't matter), but for a long time Regina wouldn't return my phone calls or letters. Feeling the hand of death on our friendship, I slipped back into nostalgia, and hoped that sometime we would be friends again...
...parents saw Regina at the funeral, and she asked them to tell me to call her. Although I talked to my father at nearly 1 a.m. I immediately called Regina, knowing that on a Friday night she would still be up at midnight...
...college students say they want lingerie in the first place? Harvard first-year and lingerie aficionado Regina N. Ford thinks, "College is a time when you change from a child to an adult. For females this means that you want to feel like a woman, and lingerie is very feminine...