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After a half-century of a tolerant approach, the recent pivot has been dramatic, writes NYU law professor Christopher Sprigman.

“It is really hard,” a colleague said, “to identify anyone who has had a larger impact on nursing than Claire.”

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To the Editor: On February 7th, a swift moving fire consumed my family’s home on Main Street in Vineyard Haven. For hours, firefighters from all over the Island valiantly battled the blaze. If you were on-Island that day, you may have seen or smelled it. I’m told the smoke was visible from miles away. I […]

The life of the cosmopolitan, who puts right before country, and universal reason before the symbols of national belonging, need not be boring, flat, or lacking in love.

Vartan Gregorian, transformative civic leader and tireless educator, dies at 87 By Susan H. Greenberg The Washington Post,Updated April 16, 2021, 2 hours ago Email to a Friend Vartan Gregorian in New York City in October 2020Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Aurora Humanitarian Prize Vartan Gregorian, the Iranian-born historian and educator who transformed the New York Public Library from a broke and derelict institution into a thriving center of culture and learning and who pushed tirelessly for i...

The Marthas Vineyard Times Vernon Jordan dies at 85 Seasonal Chilmark resident was active on the Island. Updated March 3 Civil rights activist, presidential advisor, and longtime Chilmark seasonal resident Vernon Jordan has died at the age of 85. Jordan was known to spend time golfing at Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs. In 2015 he spent time golfing with former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton at the club before a celebration of his 80th birthday, according to the New York...

For historian Ray Arsenault, 40 years at USFSP has been ‘a wonderful life’ The beloved teacher and campus leader retired at the end of the past semester. But what is he going to do with 15,000 books?     Ray Arsenault, the John Hope Franklin Professor of History and Florida Studies co-founder at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, is retiring after 40 years at the university, at his office in the historic Snell House, on campus, Monday, Dec. 7, 2020 in St. Petersburg...

Who are willing to come on and say youre a little uneasy about this, he has you guys in a trap, though, because when you speak up and do that, you say youre a squish and he gets to raise money, right? >> i hope not. i think i probably represent the mainstream republicans by being for civil rights, by being for a big ten party. im a chris christie republican, im somebody who believes you can have friends who are democrats -- you can compliment democrats when they do something right because they d...

Can play tennis with a good man tennis player. but what makes this match a credible match and what makes it the attraction it is and because and why the eyes of the world are on it is that this isnt just a tennis match, this is a battle of the sexes, and the gladiator for the men happened to be me, i was cast into that role, a 55-year-old guy with one foot in the grave that hasnt played tournament tennis for 15 or 17 years. >> the match known as the battle of the sexes defined womens tennis, wom...