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...DIED. BUDDY EBSEN, 95, Hollywood hoofer who became the world's best-known yokel by playing the role of accidental oil tycoon Jed Clampett in the 1960s television series The Beverly Hillbillies; in Los Angeles. Ebsen started out as a lanky song-and-dance man, and partnered with Shirley Temple in the 1936 film Captain January. He almost played the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, but left the film because he was allergic to the aluminum makeup used for the role. Ebsen later starred as a geriatric private investigator in TV's Barnaby Jones...
According to church member Shirley Phelps-Roper—daughter of Fred Phelps and a constitutional lawyer, like 11 of her 12 siblings, several of whom were also present—the demonstrators were there to protest Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz’s leadership of an HLS group looking at an anti-harassment code...
...think that the kind of cultural practices are difficult to correct because they’re very subtle,” says Shirley M. Tilghman, president of Princeton University and a molecular biologist. “There is no quick fix. Basically you just have to constantly whittle away at each one of these things...
...more senior I became, the less and less I thought of myself as a woman and the more and more I thought of myself as a scientist and a scholar and an administrator. I felt like a woman again, and it was very odd. And so having you [Shirley M. Tilghman] and [Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons] there, I no longer feel that way. And it has truly changed the dynamics...
...Shirley M. Tilghman: You know, to be a leader there’s no question you have to have a certain level of aggression. I don’t think you can lead unless you’re prepared to be firm when it’s required and make tough calls when it’s required and deliver bad news when it’s required. And if you are uncomfortable doing any one of those three things, you can’t be effective, frankly, as a leader. But I think all three of those...