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- Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
34: ...kends; Rice's mother, Angelena, was a teacher." [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?021014fa_fact3...
35: ... which is a direction to play "with sweetness". [http://www.wnyc.org/legacy/shows/madaboutmusic/madabo...
37: ...wice as good" as non-minorities [http://www.racematters.org/lessononlifecondoleezzarice.htm].
41: ...l, "one of the most central figures in my life" [http://www.rider.edu/phanc/Phanc/JoKorbel.htm].
47: ...nment service, she returned to Stanford in June [[2002]] to deliver the commencement address. - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...mmissioner for Human Rights]], from [[1997]] to [[2002]]. She first rose to prominence as an academic, [...
31: ...or she served on the following parliamentary committees:
32: *Joint Committee on EC Secondary Legislation (1973- 89)
33: **Chairman of its Social Affairs Sub-Committee (1977-87)
34: **Chairman of its Legal Affairs Committee (1987-89) - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
47: ...rk as a conference speaker in 1966 with a strong attack on the taxation policy of the Labour Governmen...
50: ...ended the budget of the [[Open University]] from attempts to cut it.
55: ...ensington Town Hall in which she made a scathing attack on the [[Soviet Union]]. The most controversia...
57: ...nd flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns...
59: ...her nicknames such as "The Great She-Elephant", "Attila the Hen", and "The Grocer's Daughter". The las... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
7: ...[[1960]] she began a lawsuit (''[[Murray v. Curtlett]]'') against the [[Baltimore, Maryland]] School D...
18: ...ict who had worked as an office manager and typesetter for American Atheist and had previous convictio...
21: ...mainstream Christianity, which included specific attacks on its validity using quotes from the [[Bible...
24: ...nnels being used for religious broadcasting. In [[2002]] these emails were still circulating, seven year... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...o give up a [[bus]] seat to a white man who was getting on the bus.
6: ...], [[Alabama]] branch of the [[NAACP]]. She also attended the [[Highlander Folk School]], an education...
10: ... against [[segregation]]. In helping in this boycott, Rosa Parks helped make her fellow Americans awar...
21: ...NAACP]] and the [[Highlander Folk School]] in an attempt to portray her as an average, middle-aged wom...
23: ... her to give up her seat. That is, it was not a matter of protest on any level when she sat down; the ... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
8: ... then to [[Lebanon]]. While in Bolivia, Allende attended an [[United States|American]] private school...
14: ...his wounds (whether from murder or suicide is a matter of controversy). In 1975, Isabel Allende went ...
16: ... was on his deathbed. She started writing him a letter that later evolved into a book manuscript, ''[[...
20: ...years in exile. It was written in the form of a letter to her daughter Paula, who lay in a coma in the...
30: *''City of the Beasts'' (2002) - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...]]. She was born in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], and attended school at [[Victoria University in the Unive...
4: ...an fiction]], a theme that shows up both in the settings and atmosphere of her fiction and in her [[no...
10: ... of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Kim Campbell]] in [[2002]] and ''[[Oryx and Crake]]'', championed by [[To...
81: ...tiating with the Dead, A Writer on Writing]]'' ([[2002]])
89: *[http://www.owtoad.com/ Margaret Atwood's home page] - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
11: ...[E.M. Forster]], pushed the English language "a little further against the dark," and her literary ach...
15: ...r life, that without me you could work" (<i>The Letters of Virginia Woolf</i>, vol. VI, p. 481).
20: ... Woolf: Lesbian Readings'', edited by Eileen Barrett and Patricia Cramer. Louise A. DeSalvo offers tre...
22: In [[2002]], ''[[The Hours]]'', a film loosely based on Woo...
60: * [http://www.online-literature.com/virginia_woolf/ Read... - Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq (1019 bytes)
3: ...d to be a commercial airline pilot when she was little. Because of that, she eventually got her privat...
5: She graduated in [[2002]], and received the backing of Yemen's president ... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...ather taught in the evenings. Later they helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped the...
9: ...equally involved in the work. It seemed she had little choice but to return to England.
15: ...is reported to have commented that it was very pretty 'but how are they going to prove it'. Crick and ...
18: Much has been written on the role that Franklin played in the discove...
25: ...made her ineligible. (Posthumous prizes are permitted only if the recipient dies after the award is a... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
20: ...y, or confusion seen in the United States. [See [http://www.livejournal.com/users/aperey/1217.html Per...
22: ...le enjoying casual sex, but eventually married, settled down, and successfully reared their own childr...
28: ..., and misleading." (Freeman 1999, cited by Pinker 2002, p. 115.)
33: ...vince, a more sparsely populated area. Cultural patterns there, were different from say, Mt. Hagen. Th...
35: ...hern. They are indeed, as she wrote, a cultural pattern. - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
9: In the early 1980s Gubaidulina became better known abroad through [[Gidon Kremer]]'s champio...
11: ...nnes-Passion (Gubaidulina)|Johannes-Passion]]. In 2002 she followed this by the [[Johannes-Ostern (Gubai...
70: *''Im Schatten des Baumes (В тени...
75: ... the White Horse'' for large orchestra and organ (2002)
76: ...ctions on the theme B-A-C-H'' for string quartet (2002) - Miriam Makeba (1140 bytes)
3: ...shed her autobiography ''Makeba: My Story''. In [[2002]], she shared the [[Polar Music Prize]] with [[So... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
5: ...ve rhythmic, driving sound. She has been a cigarette smoker since the age of nine, which may explain ...
9: ...d miss a scheduled appearance on ''[[The Dick Cavett Show]]''.) Also of interest, "For Free" is the f...
13: ...e confessional style replaced by a series of vignettes of 1970s women, from nightclub dancers ("Edith ...
19: ...h of talent, including [[Willie Nelson]], [[Tom Petty]] and [[Don Henley]], but the material was again...
21: ...hell described as "middle-aged love songs", was better received, but to many, the real return to form ... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
1: [[Image:alanis.jpg|thumb|Alanis Morissette]]
2: '''Alanis Nadine Morissette''' (born [[June 1]], [[1974]]) is a successful [...
6: ... a decade later in the songwriting, singing, and attitude of singers such as Aguilera, [[Avril Lavigne...
10: ...nada]], to schoolteachers Alan and Georgia Morissette. She has an older brother, Chad, and a [[twin]] ...
12: Morissette showed a love for singing and songwriting at an ... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
1: ...umb|300px|Stark in its simplicity, the cover of Patti Smith's first album, ''[[Horses (album)|Horses]]...
2: '''Patti Smith''' (born [[December 30]], [[1946]]) is a [...
6: ...tion of a spoken piece about fugitive heiress [[Patty Hearst]].
8: ...tes]] and [[Europe]], with the newly christened Patti Smith Group, punk's popularity grew and the seco...
12: ... the hit single "Because the Night" – co-written with [[Bruce Springsteen]] – which rose t... - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
2: ...merica's best songwriter" by ''Time'' magazine in 2002.
4: ...s different parts of the American South, before settling at the [[University of Arkansas]]. His daugh...
6: ...of her own material. Neither album received much attention.
8: ...ined fans among music insiders, including [[Tom Petty]], who would later cover the song.
18: ...fans in the alternative music world. She won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Female Rock performance for... - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
3: ...bruary 11]], [[1962]] in [[Kennett, Missouri|Kennett]], [[Missouri]], [[United States|USA]]) is an Ame...
9: ...eamed up with [[record producer|producer]] Bill Bottrell and other musicians to form what they called ...
11: ...Leaving Las Vegas". The album was slow to garner attention until the one song Crow did not write, "All...
13: ..."If It Makes You Happy" became a radio hit, and netted her two Grammy awards for Best Female Pop Vocal...
15: ...was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically For a Motion Picture or Television... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
7: ...nd Amos began sending tapes of the songs she'd written to record companies at this time. She first ca...
10: ...m [[China O'Brien]]; in the credits, the song is attributed to a band called "Tess Makes Good" with "a...
12: ===''Little Earthquakes''===
13: ...and a Gun", which received considerable critical attention. When the album was released in the UK, it ...
16: ...d", "Cornflake Girl" (a #4 single in the UK), "Pretty Good Year" and "Past the Mission", which feature... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...502;רים''' '''Maryām''' "Bitter"; [[Septuagint]] [[Greek language|Greek]] '''&#...
8: ...uming that Jesus died in his 30s, there is also little reason to doubt that his mother could still be ...
13: ...rowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle.
15: ...ing year and residence at Nazareth ([[Matthew 2|Matt. 2]]). Mary apparently remained in Nazareth for t...
17: ...esus (John 2:1-11). After this point, there is little mention of Mary in the Gospels until we find he...
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