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Lerner’s childhood of turmoil gave way to a life of academic achievement as a leading author and revolutionary scholar. Establishing the first degree program in women’s history in the United States, Lerner became a Professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin...
Educators in Cambridge have joined the opposition to Question 2, saying schools would have to be restructured if it passed. And that, they say, would have potentially disastrous effects in a system already in turmoil over drastic elementary school mergers planned for next year...
Strange days are exactly what found the Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1972 during their first year in the spring of 1969. On April 9, 1969, after a year of political turmoil and rising tensions between administrators and students nationwide, members of the Harvard chapter of the activist group Students for Democratic Society (SDS) took over University Hall. Late that night, University Hall was set upon by state troopers and the Cambridge police, who put an end to the occupation. The reverberations from the takeover are still felt on campus today, in ways ranging from the riot-proof design of Canaday...
Unlike the first Palestinian uprising where there was great division in Israel, with the left suggesting at times that they could understand Palestinian frustrations because there seemed little hope of changing their situation, today Israel is not in turmoil...
...Engaged in a tough fight for his third term, Wellstone had recently grabbed a slim lead in the polls over his opponent, former St. Paul mayor Norm Coleman. Now, 11 days before Election Day, Wellstone's death throws a chaotic race for control of the Senate into even greater turmoil. Minnesota state law allows Governor Jesse Ventura or the state Democratic Party to replace Wellstone's name on the ballot up until four days before the election. State Democratic leaders said they were confident they would find a replacement, possibly Rebecca Yanisch, the state trade commissioner who unsuccessfully sought...