Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tenzing Norgay showed where people can go on the planet if they have the wit and endurance. Their journeys were inward too, as all heroic endeavors are, but few in the century were more so than those undertaken by Anne Frank in her diary of the Holocaust, or Bill Wilson, who pioneered the 12-step approach to self-help that has transformed millions of lives...
...disabled --The Kennedys, dynasty --Bruce Lee, actor and martial-arts star --Charles Lindbergh, transatlantic aviator --Harvey Milk, gay-rights leader --Marilyn Monroe, actress --Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragist --Rosa Parks, civil rights torchbearer --Pele, soccer star --Jackie Robinson, baseball player --Andrei Sakharov, Soviet dissident --Mother Teresa, missionary nun --Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
...role became hazy and somewhat peripheral in the minds of many students. Last year, a debate over women's diplomas revealed a student body split and uncertain over the role of Radcliffe in their lives--some felt it crucial to have Radcliffe's seal and the signature of Wilson on their diplomas, while others felt the inclusion was an inaccurate reflection of an education fostered entirely by Harvard...
...expect that the Institute's prestige will only grow as its mission, unhindered by the illusion that it is still a college, becomes clear and well-defined. Wilson's successor faces the formidable task of molding the Institute's identity and crafting its success. How this will be accomplished is still unclear, but it is our hope that the promise of this beginning is not squandered. Here is a unique opportunity for Radcliffe to change without compromising its integrity or importance as an institution but rather to increase both...
...April, Radcliffe officially ended its daysas an undergraduate college and ceded all controlof undergraduate life to Harvard. RadcliffePresident Linda S. Wilson announced that she wouldretire, leaving the fledgling Radcliffe Institutefor Advanced Study...