Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this birthday evening the puckish John Paul, waiting to gobble down take- out Chuckee Cheese pizza, is deliriously happy to be the center of attention. But his sister Mercedes, 18, has become worried. She has noticed an insect bite on the boy's lower arm, accompanied by a red streak running upward and inward toward his heart. The pediatrician is called, and the verdict is wrenching: the bite appears to be infected; John Paul must go straight to the emergency room...
...appears to be Goldberg's mission in life to redeem improbable situations. It's what she did so profitably last summer in Sister Act, and she's awfully good at it. There's something about her -- a gritty, down-to-earth straightforwardness -- that tends to promise some realization of our wan hopes that potentially explosive circumstances can be defused -- at least for the running time of a movie...
Boyle has acted as a big sister to younger female science students through the women in science program. "Having mostly male professors--I've had one female science professor--things like that can make an impression on a first-year student," she says...
Haewon Hwang '95 co-president of AAA, says she does not believe being female has an impact on achieving a position of leadership in any of the Asian campus organizations. "Just by looking around at the sister organizations [of AAA], the majority of executive positions are filled by women," she says...
...Operations Committee has met six times, handled isolated race-related incidents and looked at some of the rules of funding and administration within the Foundation. Its sister group, headed by Appiah, is examining long-term curricular reform in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and has met three times without coming to any conclusions...