Word: womans
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...woman whose shoulders bear the burden of steering higher education’s grandest endowment through the most debilitating financial crisis in a half-century, Jane L. Mendillo cuts a decidedly unassuming figure.She speaks with measured confidence but betrays no ostentation. Her office, situated on the 16th floor of the Boston Federal Reserve Building, is adorned with little more than a few family photographs, three flat-panel monitors sitting atop her desk, and a comfortable view of Boston Harbor.But beneath her unobtrusive exterior, Mendillo, CEO of Harvard Management Company, harbors a wealth of investment knowledge. She commands the respect...
...She’s exceptionally bright,” Kidd adds. “And to be a smart black woman being bused in Atlanta? Well, when her back is up against the wall, she shows people how tough...
...advisor both for Black Community and Student Theater, a campus theater group that produces the works of African-American playwrights, and Fuerza Latina, an undergraduate organization that provides support for Harvard’s Latino students. These organizations reflect her own diversity, as she is a Guatemalan-born Latina woman who teaches both the English language and African-American history for her profession. “I would say that she reminds us how futile it is to categorize people by the convenient labels that we throw around,” Donoghue said. —Staff writer Evan...
...names top the party lists, they are sometimes figureheads who have no intention of serving out their terms. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, for example, is unlikely to take up his seat if, expected, he is elected - even if Brussels might be a sanctuary of sorts from his major woman problems of late. (Read: "Berlusconi and the Girl: No Spice, Thank...
...sounds like the plot of a bad movie. A young British woman goes on holiday to Laos, a landlocked Southeast Asian nation that's a favorite of backpackers enchanted by its laid-back vibe and vibrant Buddhist culture. But she lands in jail on drug-smuggling charges that could result in execution. Then events take a melodramatic turn: the woman becomes pregnant while in jail - and a Laotian state newspaper claims she impregnated herself with semen from a fellow prisoner to escape the death penalty, since local law precludes putting expectant mothers in front of a firing squad...