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PSLM members said they undertook Friday's action knowing they faced the risk of arrest...
...rare similarities that have created the crises in the Fishes' marriage. Though Jeff and Dolores adore their daughter Krekamey, the first few years after her birth were stressful as they struggled to care for her and pursue demanding careers as professors. Both felt the strain, but Dolores undertook the majority of parenting tasks and allowed her career to suffer the consequences. How did she deal with the frustrations? "I took it day by day," she says, acknowledging, "I find more personal rewards in household things than Jeff does...
This late-20th century American elite wasn't born; it was made. During the middle decades of the century, a group of influential university educators and foundation executives led by James Bryant Conant, the president of Harvard, undertook to unseat the Wasp elite, using the new multiple-choice college-admissions tests as an important tool. In some ways this project has turned out to be a remarkably successful bit of social engineering. The top universities still use heredity as a factor in admissions, but on the whole they have shifted from the raccoon-coat, football-weekend paradigm...
Upon moving from Boston to Newton in 1957 after three years with the Coast Guard, Miller undertook a number of projects to improve his new community...
...been replaced by religious hatred. The killing before partition made it inevitable, and the slaughter afterward trampled on his appeals to tolerance and trust. All the village pilgrimages he made in 1946 and 1947 could not stop Muslims and Hindus from killing one another. All the famous fasts he undertook could not persuade them to live permanently in harmony. He blamed himself when Indians rejected the nonviolence he had made a way of life...