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Amelia Fawcett '83 is one of the most powerful women in London, according to the Financial Times. As a member of the Court of the Bank of England, she has watched the bank handle the Northern Rock crisis first hand. She has been hands-on in the preparation for the launch of Pensions First, a pension fund buy-out firm where she will be chairman. More
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This Christmas, many people will be missing a family member or friend in the military, and war in the Middle East is on everyone's mind, whether or not a loved one is directly involved. Several new books come as a timely reminder that war has many voices. Two young women writers one Iranian, one Iraqi reflect on the war that set their two countries against each other for 10 years, and what it was like for young girls to grow up in countries perpetually in turmoil.
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It would appear that something about the Imus episode really struck a chord in a way that earlier events did not. George Allen's macaca comment was rather obscure; Michael Richards's gaffe was a peculiar, nervous outburst from a washed-up comedian. But Mr. Imus had influence and a long record of verbal tackiness; the fact that he was referring to young, talented women rendered his comment stingingly mean. The usual routine -- screaming bloody murder, while ... insisting that black men using the same words on bestselling CDs is "real" -- suddenly felt inconsistent, not to mention small and even uncomfortably close to self-loathing.
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Local Tech Wire interviewed Gordon at length earlier this year when she was one of only 11 women named to the Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders in 2003. She talked at length about her job – and how she keeps searching for new ideas and technology.
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