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...need someone to tell [them] what to do to fix all this," says Christen Varley of the Boston Tea Party. "We have to talk them off the ledge and bring them around to understand that they have a role and a responsibility." Varley, 40, is a smart, fast-talking woman who knows that winning a competitive game requires mastering its rules. "People want to change the system. They want less government involvement," she says. "But they need to understand how it works right now. We can't just stand outside the Capitol shouting at people. We have to go about...
...dismiss radical Islamism as simply evil. "We all have mothers. We all tend to idealize women as nonviolent," says Anne Speckhard, who chairs a NATO expert group on the psychological and social aspects of terrorism. "When they commit acts of terror, people start asking themselves, 'What would make a woman go there and do that?' This is already a huge propaganda victory." Speckhard adds, "If you put a woman into the role of carrying out violence - if you make her look like she's bereaved, she's suffering - you suddenly get your message across much more effectively." (After the Moscow...
Wilson joined NASA in 1996 and flew her first mission a decade later. She is the second African-American woman to ever fly in space...
...cast of “Working” fittingly pays tribute to one of its production sponsors, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers. In “Cleaning Woman,” the actresses are donned in crimson smocks displaying the Harvard Facilities Maintenance Operations seal. Led by maid Maggie Holmes (Paige E. Martin ’11), “Cleaning Woman” presents an optimism lacking in earlier monologues as Martin sings of her hopes for her daughter and the future of a whole new generation...
...poet manages to represent the dialogue between David and the woman he loves with similar precision: “at the party, she said, / ‘I have an English father and an American mother.../ and at some point I had to choose, so I moved back to London and became the sort of person / who says puh-son instead of purr-son.” Hass carefully details the small stories of each of the characters who appear throughout his poems. This ability to create a convincing narrative seems to be, according to Hass, important for poets. After...