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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Duke University on Monday named a Harvard researcher as the first woman to lead its medical school, which also makes her the only female at the helm of one of the nation's Top 10 medical schools.
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The seasoned Hill aide  knew what she was getting into when she agreed to become Hillary Clinton's chief of staff. The woman was quite prepared for all eyes to be on the biggest celebrity arriving in Congress, the first lady of the United States, who was expected to use her Senate seat as a...
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Emily Kernan Rafferty will be the first woman to hold the job when she succeeds David E. McKinney in January.
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Harvard University will likely appoint its first female president this weekend, ending a one-year search for a new leader at America's oldest university, the student newspaper reported on Friday.
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Cristina FernÃ¡ndez de Kirchner has become the first woman to be elected president in Argentinaâs history.
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Harvard seemed to be a sure bet in the first round of the women's Beanpot last night, skating into Walter Brown Arena as the top-ranked team in the nation with a 19-1-0 record. Northeastern, meanwhile, was stacking up losses through January as its young team slogged through a difficult Hockey East schedule.
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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, early 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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India looked set Thursday to get its first woman president after a vote by lawmakers, but doubts remained as to whether the 72-year-old -- dogged by a slew of scandals -- was fit to assume the post.
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First lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will become Argentina's first elected woman leader, after easily winning a presidential vote largely centered on her husband's economic successes.
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Susan Hockfield, a 53-year-old neuroscientist, is the first woman and the first person from the life sciences to achieve the presidency.
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In honor of the first Democrat to win two terms as president since Franklin D. Roosevelt, members of many of the nation&#39;s past and present first families
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One is French. One is American. Both may become the first female presidents of their country. But will Segolene Royal and Hillary Rodham Clinton support or snub each other in their battle?
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The president of Harvard University prompted criticism for suggesting that innate differences between the sexes could help explain why fewer women succeed in science and math careers.
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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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India&#39;s first female president, Pratibha Patil, will be sworn in on Wednesday as head of state of the world&#39;s largest democracy.