Word: rosa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will lead the Information Technology Board; Joseph L. Abel ’07 and Ravi P. Ramchandani ’07 will lead the Photo Board; and Alex McPhillips ’07 and Gabriel M. Velez ’07 will lead the Sports Board. Rosa M. Norton ’08 will serve as The Crimson’s Director of Public Service...
...also cast her vote for U2 front-man Bono, ?for putting a face on African poverty.? Brazile also welcomed the third recommendation from conservative Washington tax reform activist Grover Norquist, who suggested a pairing of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with civil right icon Rosa Parks, who died recently. Brazile hailed Rice's emergence as ?the face of American democracy...
Greedy lawyers in the private transnational adoptions sector are creating unnecessary family separations, Rosa M. Ortiz, a member of the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Rights of the Child, said in a debate at Harvard last night. Arguing against her was Elizabeth Bartholet, Wasserstein public interest professor of law, who said that the global community should promote international adoption because the children affected generally grow up in loving, healthy families, which otherwise might not be possible. Bartholet and Ortiz made their assertions as part of a debate on the topic of transnational adoptions hosted by the Harvard University Committee...
...Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government, co-sponsored by the Institute of Politics. Stabenow focused on the issue of suffrage, praising women who fought for political and social enfranchisement over the course of the 20th century. Listing such women as Alice Paul, Rosa Parks, Margaret Chase Smith, and Ann Richards, Stabenow called upon today’s generation to continue the advances made by women over the past century. “After we walk through the doors others have opened, we must ensure that we keep them open for future women...
Appreciation With quiet courage and nonnegotiable dignity, Rosa Parks was an activist and a freedom fighter who transformed a nation and confirmed a notion that ordinary people can have an extraordinary effect on the world. In her declining health, I would often visit Mrs. Parks, and once asked her the most basic question: Why did you do it? She said the inspiration for her Dignity Day in 1955 occurred three months prior, when African-American Emmett Till's murdered and disfigured body was publicly displayed for the world to see. "When I thought about Emmett Till," she told...