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...working women in Germany face and their fight for equality with men to be quite true [Jan. 30]. I am an American and have been living in Germany for more than 20 years. I have held several management positions in international firms and with my husband raised two daughters. Sixteen years ago, I opened my first day-care center as a nonprofit organization. Today I have three day-care centers and will open three more in Munich. The experiences of the women in your report are similar to mine. There is tremendous pressure on women in Germany to choose between...
...solid team coming into this weekend,” Harvard senior center Brian Cusworth said. “We have to shut them down inside and out.”Cusworth will be most concerned with keeping Brown center Mark MacDonald at bay, as the sophomore put up sixteen points on the Crimson center in the teams’ last meeting. The focus of Harvard’s collective defensive effort, however, will be on emerging Ivy star Keenan Jeppesen, who averaged 23 points last weekend in a home split against Cornell and Columbia. This is nothing...
...spring of 1989, Yoo’s 128-page thesis—which earned him a summa cum laude distinction—comprised an analysis of the three presidents’ foreign policies, but did not advocate for any one of them. He characterized the diplomacy during the sixteen years that he reviewed as a vacillation between two poles: “re-asserting American leadership, or devolving responsibility for defending Europe to the Europeans...
...sixteen Israeli jets-F-16 fighters and F-15 bomber escorts-skimmed low across the desert, flying in tight formation to evade radar. At 5.35 p.m., as the heat of the June day was starting to ebb, they reached their target just south of Baghdad. By the time Iraqi anti-aircraft defenses opened up, it was too late. In fewer than 90 seconds, the Israeli planes had destroyed the reactor and turned safely for home. "We had a huge responsibility towards our country and our people," says Ze'ev Raz, the pilot who led the raid on Iraq's nuclear...
...Sixteen minutes later, they had reached the town of Norfork, Arkansas. State troopers, alerted to the situation, had set up "spike strips" across the roadway. "The strips took out two of his tires but he just kept going, or tried," says Arkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler. Robida's hobbled Pontiac finally stopped after smashing against parked cars in Norfork's small downtown area, and a gun battle with local and state police ensued. Robida was shot twice in the head and was helicoptered out to a hospital in Springfield, Missouri. Bailey was found dead in the car. An autopsy...