Word: woman
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...friendship were her public service. The measure of a life is often taken in the smallest units. On television, a parking attendant in the garage that Kennedy used mentioned that Kennedy came over personally to wish the man a merry Christmas every year. A middle-age African-American woman with whom he worked in one of the programs he supported was in tears at the recollection of continuous small acts of kindness. The sudden garden that has developed on the front steps of Kennedy's loft building began simply with neighbors paying homage to a neighbor. From such fragments...
...another reason as well. It is based on a novel by Vuk Draskovic, who for years has been dramatic himself in public life as a journalist, dissident and rival to President Slobodan Milosevic. The film's plot concerns a young man brought up by a Muslim woman. Muslim boy meets Serbian girl; boy loses girl because both families object. Later, he discovers he is a Serb. The message, says Draskovic: "All of us are not who we think...
...attention to the noise, Carleton (Carly) Fiorina was saying last week, as she was crashing through the highest of glass ceilings to become the CEO of computer maker Hewlett-Packard. Although her appointment has not been so ballyhooed as Sandra Day O'Connor's becoming the first woman Supreme Court Justice or Geraldine Ferraro's running for Vice President--or, for that matter, America's women winning the soccer World Cup--it is arguably more important than any of those milestones. If women have made great strides in gaining parity in politics and sports, it is in the workplace that...
...Lucent Technologies spin-off. But if she were merely another old, white male appointed CEO by an old, white male board of directors, then her assuming the mantle would be about as newsworthy as last week's announcement of Michael Capellas to run HP rival Compaq. "No woman has achieved leadership at this level of American business," says Sheila Wellington, president of Catalyst, a New York City organization that tracks women in the work force. "It's going to give young women, girls, a powerful message...
Ahmed will begin teaching in the spring after spending the fall semester on research projects. Her classes will likely focus on women in Islam, which is Ahmed's primary field and a topic of her most recent book, "A Border Passage: From Cairo to America--A Woman's Journey...