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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While we cannot identify her womanhood as the reason behind her appointment, we must also not overlook it. Madeleine Albright has done some significant work for the sake of women. She was the director of the Women in Foreign Service Program at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service. There, she urged women to take a more active role in foreign policy. She was a foreign policy advisor to Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 and was an encouraging force in the latter's campaign for the vice-presidential nomination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Another Milestone For Women | 12/13/1996 | See Source »

...context of the service adds an element of integrity to the performance of the cantatas. motets and organ music. These pieces are compelling and thrilling as art for art's sake, but hearing them performed today in the original setting of a religious service can be especially poignant. Authenticity has glorious alchemical properties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Emmanuel Church Offers Sacred Music in Sacred Setting | 12/12/1996 | See Source »

...contradiction that existed between the venue and the band on Sunday night, and also the reason why it became more awkward and discomfiting to experience Red House Painters live, in spite of their bravura performances, than in the cold comforts of a twin (a TWIN!? for God's sake) bed with a shamefully broad amount of space...

Author: By Scott W. Slavin, | Title: The Red House Painters Bring Moody Absolution to Mama Kin | 12/6/1996 | See Source »

...this dialogue at face value. Glazed Pork Loin's intent was clearly to criticize the Crimson Key Society's own unusual brand of humor, but surely there were other ways to make the point more effectively. Yet he chose to disregard the sensitivities of Demon's readers for the sake of making a trivial point. There is a real danger that readers flipping through the latest issue of Demon who do not have the time to ponder the subtleties of the authors' convoluted sarcasm would have taken away little more than the new and dangerous attitude that the Holocaust...

Author: By Justin C. Danilewitz, | Title: Demon's Humorless Antics | 11/27/1996 | See Source »

...part of one's own material benefits to work for the greater good. Those who do not want to follow this path have every right to pursue a different career. However, those who are willing to go down this road voluntarily accept a considerable income disparity for the sake of doing good. They should be considered every bit as successful as those who are skilled at climbing the corporate ladder. --Eric Hong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Who Choose Public Service Careers Deserve Praise | 11/23/1996 | See Source »

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