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SMITH IN THE NEWS
WOMEN AND FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE "I may or may not get married.
That's not a focus of mine right now. I fully intend-and I know
my parents fully intend-that I will be financially independent.
I'm going to be doing it on my own, taking care of myself." SMITH'S LEGACY "There's a history of Smith and
service that goes back to a time when women weren't allowed to
do much more than volunteer." "There is a value in having a
strong women's higher education network-because then there are
benchmarks against which coeducational schools can be measured.
If someone wants to say that women just don't concentrate in
math or physics, and you can show them a women's college where
more women do than men do at, say, a place like Yale-then it
makes people stop and think." "Our adult students end up earning
more academic honors and awards than the traditional students
at Smith. Everybody's ready to learn at a different time." STUDENT VOICES "It's amazing how, by the end
of the month, worldly things don't mean much to you anymore." "Any government job is an honor.
But the agency allows you to do things that most people can't
do. You know, covert stuff, top-secret missions." FACULTY VOICES "I can't say that this course
will provide a thorough understanding of the classics, but it
will send students back to these books with a new appreciation,
because they encountered them not at someone else's instruction
but because they needed them." "I would step up revenue sharing
incrementally. I don't know that the commissioner will be able
to get tams to share 50 percent of their television revenues.
I think it needs to be more gradual. Whether he can accomplish
that, I don't know. I don't think contraction is the answer,
but this is where he has chosen to start. "Indeed, almost all literary biographies
fail; Richard Ellman's 'James Joyce,' Michael Holroyd's 'Bernard
Shaw,' and Hermione Lee's 'Virginia Woolf' are splendid, rare
exceptions. If you can't do it to that standard, you might well
follow the advice of another famous novelist, Muriel Spark, who
said: 'Who needs a biography anyway? My life is all there, in
my books.'" "I think baseball is going to
be sued by everybody and their grandmother about this (contraction)." "Challenges to longstanding records
are fun, and they crank up fan interest. Go back to 28 teams,
and baseball gets duller." "A lot of this depends on our
personal lives, our own spiritual lives, our own philosophical
lives and our own vulnerabilities." ******************** Smith in the News is distributed regularly,
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