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...other concrete result of the dinner was an agreement to accelerate work on a program to retrain Cambridge teachers in specialized fields using Harvard facilities...
Michelle Harrison had been a family physician for eight years when she decided to scrap her New Jersey practice and retrain as an obstetrician-gynecologist. The 35-year-old doctor was drawn to the field by the rewards she had experienced attending "home births," by the pleasures of her own pregnancy and motherhood and by her ardent commitment to feminism and women's health. Harrison, who is divorced, searched for a part-time residency that would permit her to care for her five-year-old daughter Heather. She landed such a position at Boston's renowned Beth Israel...
...constant retrain running through discussions of Radcliffe offerings is the dearth of publicity they receive and the relatively low level of use they therefore enjoy from Radcliffe under graduates. Radcliffe "assumes a base level of awareness that most people don't have," says Yvonne L. Jones '85 a Radcliffe intern. While the Schlesinger library houses a nationally eminent collection on women's history, library director Patricia King admits that "it's hard to acquaint undergraduates with the factn that it exists." Ann Co1by, director of the Murrey Center says that while some undergraduates regularly use the facility most undergraduates "Just...
...particular night when the Kroks recorded their latest album last spring, one version of the retrain sent the packed Sanders Theater crowd into paroxysms of delight, the longest and loudest laugh of the night. Their tuxedoed frames neatly outlined against the rich wood paneling, they sang "In Tommy's Lunch, Eurofags Do It," and the place went wild...
...Iacocca, reportedly with the explanation: "I just don't like you." Iacocca then moved across town and soon became chairman of Chrysler. He has been the chief negotiator of the company's $1.5 billion Government-guaranteed loan. Says he: "Government officials make it sound so easy: just retrain everybody. When one industry gets hurt by this avalanche of Japanese cars, you switch them all to washing cars. This isn't the jelly-bean business. What if, God forbid, we go to war, and we're fighting the guy who's been supplying us with...