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Jailed suffragists like Alice Paul used hunger strikes in the early 20th century to rattle President Woodrow Wilson, who denounced such tactics as appalling and "unladylike," though he later buckled amid a public outcry over the forced feeding of the protesters and agreed to support the 19th Amendment granting women the vote. During World War II, a group of conscientious objectors at Connecticut's Danbury prison staged a 135-day strike against segregated dining. As a result, Danbury became the first federal facility with integrated meals...
...women’s 800-meter—a race in which all five Harvard competitors finished in the top 16—and sophomore Cara Sprague earned third in the 3000-meter steeple chase.The Crimson’s sprinters were no less impressive, as seniors Dara Wilson and Geneva Trotter went one-two in the 100 hurdles.With third place finishes from senior Evan Favermann in the javelin and freshman Lauren Barber in the shotput, as well as a second place effort from high jumper Dina Emde, Harvard tallied a total of 112 points en route to a fourth-place...
...model good is that it allows those people to drop out at a minimal cost when things go wrong. Not that the decision to leave is ever easy, but entering a life after sports at Harvard is certainly feasible. According to Katherine C. “Kacey” Wilson ’10, a former cross country runner who left after her freshman year, it can even be revitalizing...
...Most of the works are from the ever-expanding collection of owners Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown, a scion of Brown-Forman Corp., which started bottling Kentucky bourbon and is now one of the world's biggest liquor conglomerates. "The owners' mission is to make art accessible," says William Morrow, the museum's curator. "It's amazing how many audiences there are for a project like this." Temporary exhibits change about every six months; now running (through June) is Constant World, an installation by Brooklyn-based artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, which combines sculpture, electronics and video...
...they call themselves, met in Portuguese class while undergrads at Harvard. Both went on to Harvard Business School, after which Wilson worked for eBay, overseeing eBay Canada and launching eBay Motors, while Maybank ran retail operations at Bulgari and sales-forecasting at Louis Vuitton. Eventually, however, "we discovered we were spending way too much time sneaking to sample sales and taking orders for family members," Wilson says. "We thought this might be a simpler way to go about it and more fun." Only now occasional restraint is in order. "We actually have a policy that we can't buy merchandise...