Word: weavers
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White separatist Randy Weaver and Kevin Harris, a family friend, were acquitted in the 1992 slaying of a U.S. marshal. The marshal was killed in a gunfight after federal agents converged on Weaver's remote cabin to arrest him for failing to appear in court on a weapons charge. Weaver's 14-year-old-son also died in the shoot-out. The shoot-out was followed by an 11-day siege in which Weaver's wife was killed by a federal sniper...
...same time, Weaver has managed to maintain a 25-year marriage (to a Harvard Business School graduate) and raise two sons...
...Weaver attributes her ability to juggle the different aspects of her life to the flexible hours possible in the life of a professor. "There was always the frantic wonder if the babysitter would show up. I don't know how I had the energy to do things," she says. "I do know the main ways I did it--basically, I worked weekends...
...adds that this is not the future she envisioned when she picked Radcliffe over Wellesley in order to meet a rich, powerful husband. "Life is unplannable," says Weaver, who originally moved to Texas because of her husband's job there. "If you get a good education, you can't make too many mistakes...
Emily DeHuff '68, however, would most likely disagree with Weaver. DeHuff says she has been able to use her degree to help causes she supports; however, she says her job as a secretary is not what she had hoped for her future...