Area girls reflect on women leaders
Kamala Harris’s official Senate media photo.
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND Seeing a woman being elected as the country’s next vice president has inspired a few young women here to reach higher.
“Having a woman being voted in as vice president is something I have been waiting my whole life for,” said Sabine Costello-Sanders, who is 16 and a student of Mount Desert Island High School. “Ever since I was young, I had never seen, or was shown, many women in high positions of government. For a long time, I did not feel like I could do anything because I had not seen a woman there to show me that it was an option.
In a year dominated by pandemic, many other dramas unfolded
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Recalling influential people who died in 2020
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Some other major events of 2020: Iran The year ended as it began with tensions between Iran and the US inflamed by the killing of a top official. On January 3, a US drone strike killed Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani. Iran responded with a missile attack that injured dozens of US troops in Iraq. In December, a mysterious attack near Tehran killed a nuclear scientist whom the US and others had identified as organising Iran’s effort to seek nuclear weapons two decades ago. Iran blamed that attack on Israel.
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In this photo released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry, military personnel stand near the flag-draped coffin of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a scientist, during a funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020.
Looking back at 2020: In a year dominated by pandemic, many other dramas unfolded
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