Word: woman
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...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) received report of a fight in the parking lot outside of North Hall near Lesley College. Officers who responded determined that it was a man and a woman who were intoxicated. They were sent away from the area...
Also on May 4, HUPD received a report from a student who said he had had a confrontation with a female motorist who almost struck him. The student had been crossing the street near Vanderbilt Hall on the Harvard Medical School campus. He said the woman exited her car and verbally assaulted him at which point he noted her license plate number and notified the Boston Police Department...
Individual investment accounts might help remedy this; whatever a woman earned on investments would be hers to keep and would add to the pension she would otherwise get. But much more should be done. The National Organization for Women advocates an income-splitting approach for married women: if a couple makes, say, a combined $60,000 a year, husband and wife would each be credited with $30,000 of earnings for Social Security purposes. This arrangement would be costly and no doubt difficult to sell to male legislators. But it sounds fair--a partial remedy for the discrimination that still...
Some of the sketches reminded the faithful why they were there: to fight the loss and loneliness that attend AIDS and other human calamities. A woman (Elizabeth Franz) whose son had died in a car accident was comforted by the beautiful singing of the woman (Audra McDonald) whose car had hit him. Two G.I.'s (Brian Dennehy and George Wendt) play a game of Botticelli while waiting for, and then gunning down, a lone enemy soldier. At the funeral for a young man dead of AIDS, his lover (Tim Robbins) tries to reach out to the dead man's mother...
...sings, is the devil's music, or that Roman Catholicism, in which she was recently ordained by a rebel sect, does not allow women in the clergy. Come to think of it, O'Connor doesn't seem to get this whole religion thing at all. Last week the woman who in 1992 tore up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live became the first female priest in the Latin Tridentine Church, a Roman Catholic splinter group. Days before the ordination in Lourdes, France, O'Connor, a twice-married mother of two, told the London newspaper the Mirror that...