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...partnered with four existing businesses that produced embroidered linens, hand-embroidered baby garments, beaded handbags and jewelry, and she imports the products through her two-year-old company, Jacaranda Living, which is based in Wellesley, Mass. Deale's best-selling category is waffle-weave cotton towels, and she says her nautical designs sell well among the Cape...
...marched in a circle outside the Armed Forces Career Center in downtown Boston yesterday afternoon, in a demonstration timed to coincide with the first day of Supreme Court hearings on the Solomon Amendment. At one point nearly 60 demonstrators, including a group of high school students from Wellesley, Mass. and members of the “Raging Grannies” organization, joined in shouting anti-recruitment and anti-war slogans. The Solomon Amendment is a Congressional statute that allows the Pentagon to withhold federal funds from any school that limits military recruitment on its campus. The Solomon Amendment...
...King simultaneously addresses the three most prevalent criticisms of the Corporation: that it is too white, too male, and too corporate. She will become the second woman on the Corporation and just the third in the board’s history, joining Nannerl O. Keohane, the former president of Wellesley College and Duke University.King said yesterday that the Corporation’s growing diversity was “an important step” for Harvard. She added, “I think it’s a tribute to all of us as individuals, as well as to diversity...
...group Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND).Over the weekend, STAND elected eight members to its national executive committee, launched a network connecting students fighting Darfur genocide, and kicked off a campaign to urge national politicians to take action on the issue.Students from Harvard, Brandeis University, Georgetown University, and Wellesley College organized the anti-genocide conference, which brought college and high school students from around the country. They came to attend workshops and organize a plan to fight the genocide in Darfur region of Sudan, in which over 400,000 have died and 450 villages have been destroyed.Patrick W. Shmitt...
...King simultaneously addresses the three most prevalent criticisms of the Corporation: that it is too white, too male, and too corporate. She will become the second woman on the Corporation and just the third in the board’s history, joining Nannerl O. Keohane, the former president of Wellesley College and Duke University...