Word: minnesota
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...reject the compartmentalization that goes on in the Harvard administration and faculty because it serves as a shell game to deny students a say in all the areas that concern us. At many other colleges in the nation, from Louisiana State University to the University of Minnesota, students have been accepted onto search committees for deans and faculty. At Harvard, we are denied any say in the tenure process. We mature tremendously from our first year to our last, but unfortunately the administration chooses to treat us as first-year students until we graduate...
Women's Swimming vs. Minnesota (at Hawaii...
...women academics discuss threats to equality in the workplace and the right to reproductive privacy. An activist for tribal rights writes a history of her beleaguered Minnesota reservation. Two Radcliffe graduates detail their experiences as students and teachers in Beijing during the rise and fall of the pro-democracy movement. A Jewish woman writes about a movement to feminist Talmudic scholars; a Black woman writes of her experiences confronting apartheid while traveling in South Africa...
Then there are those who take a long jump into more creative endeavors. After becoming a partner at one of Minnesota's largest firms, Greg Howard left law to become a cartoonist. His Sally Forth strip is syndicated in 300 papers nationwide. "My writing skills as a lawyer have been helpful in cartooning, but certainly I have to use a lot fewer words," says Howard, 45. "I used to get 50 pages for a brief. Now I get 50 words for a comic strip...
Alas, Powdermilk Bagels, the brand that gives shy New Yorkers the strength to jump over subway turnstiles, was not among the sponsors. Garrison Keillor, the wandering Minnesota minstrel whose Prairie Home Companion variety show on public radio told tales of gentle eccentricity in a hard-to-find Midwestern hamlet called Lake Wobegon, says he has put shyness behind him. Just as well. Keillor, whose new American Radio Company of the Air fills the old P.H.C. Saturday-evening slot (6 to 8 p.m. EST), is now a New Yorker himself, an unstrained and wildly germinating seed in the Big Applesauce. Like...