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...talk, titled "Prospects for Peace in the Middle East," was given at Wellesley College Thursday night...
Lewis Howe, an aide to Senate Minority Leader David Locke (R-Wellesley), said Locke also would oppose those changes...
...they have a function," the text reads, "Final clubs give parties, rent rooms to members (hourly or for the summer), have alumni connections for that hard-to-get-job during the recession, hold black tie dinners, and go on group trips to Wellesley, Simmons or other members' country homes...
Nationalist President Chiang Kai-shek, a convert to the Methodist Church, and his Wellesley College-educated wife naturally became the symbols of China in American eyes during World War II, along with the sturdy peasants depicted in the novels of Pearl Buck. The U.S. armed and supported Chiang as an important ally in the struggle against Japan. Washington was wrong again: Chiang spent more energy attacking Mao Zedong's communists than trying to repel the Japanese invaders...
Susan Estrich, author of Real Rape, considers herself a lucky victim. This is not just because she survived an attack 17 years ago by a stranger with an ice pick, one day before her graduation from Wellesley. It's because police, and her friends, believed her. "The first thing the Boston police asked was whether it was a black guy," recalls Estrich, now a University of Southern California law professor. When she said yes and gave the details of the attack, their reaction was, "So, you were really raped." It was an instructive lesson, she says, in understanding how racism...