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...Democrats, Harris Wofford's upset victory in Pennsylvania's Senate race was an encouraging sign in a race that was a laboratory for the campaign style and themes they hope to carry against Bush...
...overall winner of this year's contest is Dan Cray, 18, of Wofford Heights, Calif., for his national-events entry, "Free Enterprise Reaches the Final Frontier," a 675-word story on the new business of rocketing the ashes of the dead into space. Cray, who graduated from Kern Valley High School in Lake Isabella, Calif., last week, is an aspiring journalist and plans to attend Santa Monica College...
...most widely publicized endorsement of National Service came in a 1979 study called Youth and the Needs of the Nation, a Ford Foundation-financed effort, co-chaired by Jacqueline Grennan Wexler, former president of Hunter College, and Harris Wofford, long time Kennedy associate, former president of Bryn Mawr, and, like Wexler, a pillar of the liberal community. The report calls for engaging "a million or more young people in a new system of voluntary National Service designed to help meet this country's non-military needs." Though the report's conclusion calls for a "voluntary" program, it repeatedly cites...
...Allan Crockett for the five-member panel. But noting such "widely accepted" ideas as earlier female maturity and male breadwinning responsibility, the court upheld a state law under which males are considered minors until age 21 and females only until 18. In Georgia, however, Trial Judge Charles A. Wofford struck down the state's laws on alimony because the requirement to pay applied to husbands only. Similarly, State Judge John S. Covington threw out the Louisiana prostitution statute because only the woman - and not her client - is subject to penalty. Said Covington: "The state must regulate the conduct...
This has been one of the familiar themes of American art ever since the Hudson River School-the idea of epic landscape, which gives rise to the parallel idea that the actual making of a picture is some kind of journey. And for Wofford, whose attitude has been much influenced by reading the memoirs of an Oglala chief (Black Elk Speaks), landscape ought not to be separated from the way American Indians perceived nature: as an assembly not of dead earth and dumb plants, but of sentient presences. Some of this comes through in paintings like Star-Weaver, with their...