Word: sylvia
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According to Sylvia H. Struss, trademark administrator at Harvard, the University is following many other schools which, in the past 10 years, have licensed their names to protect their image by forcing manufacturers to register their designs and to raise additional money for the school...
Bush may be the perfect antidote to this culture, which economist Sylvia Hewlett, author of A Lesser Life, says has "taught young women to almost despise the nurturing role." Indeed, now that Bush is on her own, she is holding her own. Rather than hype fashion designers or choose new White House china (she is replacing chipped plates one at a time), Bush spends her days drawing attention to the homeless, AIDS patients, the poor, and those whose lives have been so impoverished they never learned to read. For Wellesley students, says Hewlett, Bush "has all sorts of wisdom about...
...onto a 28-year-old undocumented refugee from Nicaragua. The woman eagerly shows off her food: tortillas, beans, a head of lettuce, one apple, a bag of stuffing. But it's not enough to feed her family. Last year she and her husband, along with five-year-old daughter Sylvia, a beauty with sparkling green eyes and boundless hugs, walked from Mexico to Texas. When they reached Houston, Sylvia was battling bronchitis. Her parents had no idea where to turn for help. Then they met Mahon. She guided them to a local medical clinic, and before long the fire returned...