Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...treated very, very shabbily," says Clark. "She really had to fend for herself in every way. It was really quite a struggle." Hoping to help young women avoid discrimination, Scheiber, raised an Orthodox Jew, decided to donate nearly her entire fortune to two divisions of the Jewish university: Stern College for Women and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her will specified that the funds be used exclusively for scholarships and loans for women. Stern has 840 of the university's 6,200 students. About half of the medical school's 900 students are women...
...Naomi S. Stern '97, the organizer of the event, explained that the forum was a result of collaboration between the Catholic Students Association (CSA) and Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel. Representatives of Secular Humanism, Catholicism, Judaism and Zen Buddhism accepted the invitation to address students on the philosophy of their respective religions...
Speaking next on Judaism was forum organizer Stern. Citing a passage from the Jewish commentator Rashi, Stern highlighted what she said was a fundamental Jewish "tension between the universal, defined by the creation, and the particular, defined by Jewish...
...mere misery that defeated Walesa. Kwasniewski's appeal was more to youth and the future than to the stern stability of the communist past. His movie-star good looks and pleasant manner contrasted with a graying, truculent Walesa, who directed his appeal to a Polish Catholic conservatism that is going out of style. "It's more true that Walesa lost the election than that Kwasniewski won it," says Bronislaw Geremek, chairman of the Sejm's Foreign Affairs Committee...
...political blunder sure to provoke nostalgia for the Nixon Administration: the Wall Street Journal reported that Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary hired a Washington firm to investigate reporters and news organizations in an effort to determine the sources of negative stories about the department. Though O'Leary got a stern rebuke from the White House, it decided she could stay at her post...