Harvard picks first woman president
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A celebrated historian on Sunday became Harvard's first female president since its founding in 1636, succeeding Lawrence Summers whose short tenure was dogged by controversial remarks about women and a faculty revolt.
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Harvard University could be about to name its first female president, as the governing board charged with vetting candidates has narrowed its search to a single one, historian Drew Gilpin Faust, according to published reports.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is poised to pick a woman as its new president, the first female head of the MIT, school officials said.
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Pratibha Patil has won India's presidential election and will become the country's first female president, officials say.
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America's first black woman secretary of state took the ceremonial oath of office Friday surrounded by family and friends, some who had traveled from her native Alabama, as well as the president, first lady and a Supreme Court justice.
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Americans appear prepared to elect either a black or a female president. But experience trumps both factorsâand in a two-way race, Hillary Clinton leads Barak Obama by nearly 20 points.
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NEW DELHI, July 21 -- Lawmakers elected India's first female president, officials announced Saturday, in a vote seen as a step forward for the millions of Indian women and girls who face bitter discrimination in everyday life.
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She came of age as the only girl in a tradition-bound family, and is now the first woman to lead Harvard.
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India elected its first female president on Saturday, official results showed, in what supporters called a boost for the rights of millions of downtrodden women, despite a bitter campaign marked by scandal.
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Vice President Joyce Mujuru, the first woman appointed to the post, spent her first day as acting president yesterday while President Robert Mugabe took his vacation, state radio said.
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Lady Bird Johnson, the woman who became first lady just hours after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, has died, a family spokesman told CNN. She was 94. She married Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th U.S. president, in 1934 and proved herself to be the quintessential political wife.
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And other surprising answers, in time.com's first-ever survey of the wives (and husband) of the Presidential candidates
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.  - The Massachusetts Institute of  Technology on Thursday named Susan Hockfield as its first  female president, a breakthrough for the world-renowned school  that has churned out more than 50 Nobel prizewinners but which  ranks below the national average for its percentage of female  students.
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When the teams line up for the opening faceoff in the Beanpot championship, anything is possible. It's just one game, and though Harvard (23-1-0) came into last night's women's final at Walter Brown Arena ranked No. 1 in the nation, the Crimson did not assume victory against unranked but rapidly building Boston University (12-13-3).
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BUENOS AIRES - She met her future husband while studying law and joined him as he rose from governor of a small state to the presidency. A powerful first lady and senator in her own right, she's now campaigning hard to be the first woman elected president of her country.
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Segolene Royal has officially launched her campaign to become France's first woman president at a congress of her Socialist Party as her main rival on the ruling right, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, struggled to mount a challenge.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, standing outside an abandoned knitting mill that will become the new home of the National Women's Hall of Fame, said Thursday she hopes America is ready for its first woman president.