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Wellesley College is a women's liberal-arts college, in Wellesley, Massachusetts, that opened in 1875, founded by Henry Fowle Durant and his wife Pauline Fowle Durant. According to the 2010 U.S. News and World Report rankings, Wellesley College is the #4 liberal arts college in the United States, tied with Middlebury College, behind Williams, Amherst and Swarthmore. In addition, Forbes' 2008 "America's Best Colleges" ranked Wellesley College as #8. In November 2009, The Global Language Monitor ranked Wellesley College as the #1 college in the US, based on an analysis of appearances in the global print and electronic media, on the Internet, throughout the blogosphere, and social media such as Twitter. - Source: Wikipedia
Wendy Weil, a beloved literary agent known for her low-key but determined style and for an eclectic clientele of groundbreaking and best-selling authors, from Alice Walker and Rita Mae Brown to Fannie Flagg and Mark Helprin, has died. She was 72.
Among the injustices about the death of Nora Ephron is that she isn't around to tell us about it.
Among the injustices about the death of Nora Ephron is that she isn't around to tell us about it.
Nora Ephron, the essayist, author and filmmaker who challenged and thrived in the male-dominated worlds of movies and journalism and was loved, respected and feared for her wit, died on Tuesday of leukemia. She was 71.
Among the injustices about the death of Nora Ephron is that she isn't around to tell us about it.
It's a scream that's still reverberating around the world.
"I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett ..."
American scientists deliberately infected prisoners and patients in a mental hospital in Guatemala with syphilis 60 years ago, a recently unearthed experiment that prompted U.S. officials to apologize Friday and declare outrage over "such reprehensible research."
The U.S. government apologized to Guatemala Friday for a study 60 years ago in which American scientists deliberately infected prisoners in that country with syphilis.
ROANOKE — The decision to admit men was made first. Then a new name had to be chosen. Now, the transformed Randolph College will have a new president for its first academic year as a coed institution.
