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...life she was on her own. She went to a microphone and spoke to the Canadian and American people, a simple woman, a mother, and unmistakably a princess ... For her nation ... she asked respect: 'Whatever you do, do not give me your pity. No woman ever felt as proud as I do of the marvelous heritage of my own people ... They had always maintained the right of the individual to his own liberty ... of his person ... of his soul ... Placed before the terrible choice of surrendering those rights or of dying in their defense, they never hesitated ... Pity...
...years, including 12 in solitary confinement, for revealing Israeli nuclear secrets to a British newspaper; in Ashkelon, Israel. The convert to Christianity, who has had severe restrictions placed on his travel, was defiant upon his release. "To all those calling me a traitor," he said. "I'm proud and happy to do what...
...stay after class—now held in the Harvard Stadium—and actually sell out a home football game. Scraping the bottom of the barrel for TFs and sending class sizes higher and higher does not sound like a way to better undergraduate education. Harvard has a proud tradition as a mid-sized institution. Just maintaining current levels of academic quality will be extremely difficult if Harvard’s student body resembles the University of Pennsylvania’s more than Williams?...
Disappointed academics like Sarah have somehow become the novelist's shorthand for the middle-class everyman. Paul Trilby, the hero of James Hynes' Kings of Infinite Space (St. Martin's; 341 pages), is the proud possessor of a Ph.D. in English, an illustrious achievement that has earned him a job as an office temp at the General Services Division of the Texas Department of General Services. TxDoGS, as its denizens call it, is a dreary cubicle farm consecrated to obscure bureaucratic functions. When a co-worker dies at his desk while working overtime on a pointless assignment, Paul...
...Steinem [April 5]. She has been my role model throughout my life, which would be very different had it not been for Steinem and the women's rights movement. She has given me strength and courage. I thank Steinem for being articulate, sexy, smart, strong and passionate. I am proud to be a feminist. SARA A. FLICKNER Chicago...