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Riveting Rosies Now Collecting Overdue Glory

By Jeannine Yeomans ● Arts & Culture ● January 29, 2001

Women embodied by Rosie the Riveter, the World War II icon with flashing eyes and bulging biceps, now have their own memorial, thanks to aging Rosies who came together, remembering solidarity and how they helped win the war and liberate themselves.

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Judge: Anorexic Student Need Not Be Readmitted

By no-author ● Arts & Culture ● January 15, 2001

Cantwell Makes History: 13th Woman in U.S. Senate

By Kim Palchikoff ● Politics ● November 27, 2000

While the battle over the Presidential recount in Florida rages, across the Continental Divide, Washington’s self-made high-tech millionaire Maria Cantwell, after two weeks of see-sawing vote totals, has apparently defeated Republican Slade Gorton.

Museum Makes Women’s Suffrage Battle Come Alive

By Jennifer Woodhull ● Arts & Culture ● November 17, 2000

The on-line exhibit at the Women of the West Museum explores women’s battle for political rights, lest we and our children forget the ferocious struggle it took to claim the territory of political autonomy.

Pro-Choice Republicans Have a Plan

By Cynthia L. Cooper ● Arts & Culture ● April 20, 2000

They believe they have the polls, numbers and money to change their party’s stance.