Word: student
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...Somehow I don't see, know or understand how in this whole country there is not one Black woman who can teach law at Harvard," Waters said to the 50 undergraduates at the speech. "Student activism is very powerful...
Ovitz, 43, has pursued power with the fierce concentration of a student of aikido, the Japanese martial art that he practices each dawn. "He's an economic samurai," says a colleague. Starting in 1975, when he and four young colleagues left the William Morris Agency to form their own firm, Ovitz has managed to assemble the hottest stable in town. Creative Artists Agency has a roster of 675 clients ranging from superstars Tom Cruise, Sylvester Stallone and Madonna to directors Oliver Stone and Martin Scorsese...
Squabbling occurs during 501's damp, disorganized first nights. Ranger Brad Wolgast, 21, an eagle scout and psychology student from Kansas, observes privately that the troop's adults and boys communicate poorly. "Things get left unsaid," he explains. Staff members at base camp tell of a stressed-out troop that tied one of its hikers to a tree earlier this year. Philmont chaplain Rusty Cowden, 38, remembers his own trek in 1967: "We got lost. A bear ate our food, and it rained 11 out of 12 days." But Cowden recalls the trip joyously. Coping with blisters, bears and soggy...
...year, partly, he says, "because it was practical." It was also his way of keeping alive the Age of Aquarius. While Michael Aymar, 32, was on Wall Street as a bond trader, he kept his hair short, following an unwritten code. But last year, yearning for his student days, he asked his bosses at an ad agency if there was a policy on hair length. He got no reply, and today his ponytail is 4 in. long...
Lawson herself grew up next door to Mississippi, in a suburb of Birmingham. She dropped out of Tuskeegee Institute to work for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Later she moved to Washington, then spent two years in Tanzania helping bring together Africans and African Americans interested in the arts. After getting a master's degree in film from Columbia University and making "a few mediocre documentaries that definitely will not be shown on public television," Lawson got a job teaching film at Brooklyn College. She also served as executive director of the Film Fund, which financed independent documentaries, and later...