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...Young America's Foundation (YAF), a Herndon, Va., organization, founded in 1969, that sponsored 200 conservative lectures across the country last year (in addition to the National Conservative Student Conference). At many schools, those speeches have become the biggest events of the semester. Last year at Duke, for instance, YAF speaker Ben Stein, an ex--Nixon aide and former Comedy Central host, attracted 1,500 people, 200 of whom had to be turned away--a bigger crowd than the one that had come to hear Maya Angelou two months earlier. With its $13 million annual budget, the foundation...
...MCGOWAN Norfolk, Va...
DIED. Carolyn Shaw Bell, 85, dynamic Wellesley College economist credited with upping the number of women in economics and business by inspiring her students to enter those male-dominated fields and helping to produce what the New York Times in 1995 called the "Wellesley factor"; in Arlington, Va...
...elucidated a better understanding of the genetic code, Philip Leder ’56, who now acts as chairman of the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, says he comes from modest beginnings. A resident of Stoughton Hall his freshman year, Leder, who grew up in Arlington, Va., says that his dormitory was a reflection of his socioeconomic standing. “There was a hierarchy of dorms,” he recalls. “Those with the means could live in nicer dorms at the time and if those without could live in the character rich dorms...
JULIE WHITLOCK Richmond, Va...