Word: wright
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...residency] meant there was a lot of demystifying of 'Cliffies as a group," says Barry M. Wright '71, now a psychologist in Grand Ledge, Michigan. "Before, they were seen as very rich, very bright and not very attractive. In reality, it was much complex than that...
...easier to become friends with girls if you were living with them," says Wright, a Leverett resident who moved to Currier House when the new dorm first opened in 1970. "Having breakfast together is much different than going out on dates...
...Marian Wright Edelman, the youngest daughter of a Baptist preacher, from adversity springs strength. From defeat comes inspiration. If her courage ever fails her, she is not about to say so. Life as she lives it day by day is a series of battles fought along starkly moral lines. That is why Edelman--who helped register black voters in the segregated South, who stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and who gave Robert Kennedy a personal tour to see the malnourished children in the Mississippi Delta...
...vote or cut a dollar, "How will this affect kids?" And even if they did, they would not necessarily answer the question Edelman's way because of the growing sense, embraced by both major presidential candidates, that government has its limitations. "Read between the lines of everything Marian Wright Edelman says, and what you get is this," says Robert Rector of the conservative Heritage Foundation. "The problem affecting kids is material poverty, so if we give the family more money for housing and food, things will turn out better for the kids. The reality is that despite 30 years...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In what they hope will be a massive end-run around politicians, thousands of children's advocates will march on Washington this weekend to plead for a renewed national commitment to meet the varied needs of children. The "Stand for Children" march, organized by Marian Wright Edelman's Children's Defense Fund (CDF), comes at a time when federal programs for children are targets of a budget-cutting Congress and of a White House that has proved willing to experiment with the social safety net. Conservative groups such as the Family Research Council and the Traditional Values Coalition...