Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Grim, who was encouraged to learn the sport from her childhood gymnastics coach, followed in her older sister's footsteps and decided to try out for her high school's varsity team as a freshman. Ever since earning a starting spot that year, Grim has had the drive to work hard to improve her game...
...exhibited at the National Gallery in London, is the life-size kneeling figure of St. Francis in Meditation, painted at the height of Zurbaran's career, in the late 1630s. This is not the St. Francis of earlier legend, warbling to the birds of Assisi about Brother Sun and Sister Moon. Spanish Catholicism in the 16th and 17th centuries invented a new St. Francis, a death-haunted monk whose images would force the faithful to think about their own dissolution...
Russell Sage is among the most aggressive and innovative recruiters of female applicants. Among its techniques: assigning every arriving freshman an upper-class "big sister," along with a faculty mentor and a student adviser, and weaving "old-girl networks" to create the same kinds of career opportunities for its graduates that "old boys" have traditionally held out to young men. Russell Sage also puts its seniors in touch with alumnae executives who provide career advice and arrange job contacts...
...make students feel more at home, Raza sponsors a big brother/big sister program and a weekly table at Adams House. "The table is not just for Mexican-Americans, but also for friends and roommates," said Torres...
...this isn't an achievement. I've missed the slower, simpler life of the South. I liked living in a place where everybody knew everybody. I wanted clean air, trees, Grape Nehi, and tadpoles. Looking for the simple life, I'd visit my sister in Maine. But it wasn't the same...