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Uppity Women Unite
As Susan Cronin '84, the chairperson of Harvard's Committee for Economic Change, notes, the first visit home can be especially difficult for certain Harvard freshmen--those from working class backgrounds. "Working-class freshmen can face a lot of hostility when they get home," says Cronin, whose committee operates a...
It's probably to Theroux's credit that he's picked up on an idea everyone's recognized for a long time--that something's wrong with America. It's probably more to his credit that he doesn't attempt to find it out on the open road like Kerouac...
The letter is very much in keeping with Kirkpatrick's style at the U.N. Although friends say she is shy and a bit uncomfortable with the social aspects of her job, many of her colleagues consider her "schoolmarmish" and "uppity," as one put it.
Diverse as their backgrounds are, Foot's idols also share a social conscience. Bonar Thompson, an anarchist Hyde Park orator whom Foot befriended, believed so strongly in his own independence and in the immorality of the British political system "that he had never helped to sustain that system with so...