But for all her apparent wealth and power -- for all her success -- Sandberg appears to remain the rather retiring person she was in high school and college, the kind of person who "did not speak or raise her hand, " writes Auletta.
Woodward, who comes from a suburb of Liverpool, said she came to the United States to work as a nanny in June 1996 so she could learn about the culture and because she was unsure of what she wanted to study in college.
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Nicole told her family she was going there to go to college and live in a penthouse, and that she was being taken care of financially.
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In the United States, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), regarded by some as the most important woman in American history, was allowed to study in an all-male college only because she was a brilliant Greek scholar.
Now she was in Atlanta, at Spelman College.
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Joanne Rife, a college graduate in California who was interested in industrial psychology, had a job interview in which she was pitted against a man with an inferior college record.
He is married to Holly Petraeus, whom he met while he was a cadet at West Point and she was a student at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.
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Dr Katharine Giles was cycling to work at University College London (UCL) when she was involved in a collision with a tipper truck in Victoria on Monday.
Her most recent was in December, when she was home visiting from her first year of college.
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The former foster child had never considered college as part of her future when she was encouraged to attend her first Strive for College session in her junior year of high school.
She later attended what was then Bluffton College in Ohio and was married in her senior year to Sherwood Diller.
Between 1966 and 1975 she was a lecturer at the London School of Economics and in 1987 was appointed Master of Birkbeck College.
In one instance, Valle said the woman was at a college four hours away, even though she attended school in New York.
She was working at the college and traveled around campus in an electric wheelchair.
She was on-faculty for nearly 20 years in the College of Business at San Jose State University in California.
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She was also taking college courses while working part-time in a trendy Venice Beach bar.
"That was when I was young and naive in college, " she tells me with an embarrassed smile.
She was leading Roberts Wesleyan, a tiny liberal arts college in upstate New York, to the NAIA championship basketball game by averaging 24.3 points and 6.7 rebounds.
She was a pathfinder from early on and graduated from college in the late 1940s with a college degree in science, even though her parents thought education was not necessary for women.
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When my grandmother left to go to college in what was then Leningrad, she brought with her the recipes of her childhood.
Mary Barra got her first taste of what ailed General Motors in 1980, when she was an 18-year-old college student.
When she heard the medical field was still hiring, Bosch enrolled in a local college to get certified as a licensed vocational nurse.
Chaudhary was doing postgraduate work at Sheridan College in Toronto when she read about Enstitute while scrolling her Twitter feed during a dental checkup.
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She was raised in Asheville, North Carolina, and graduated in 1974 from Furman College in Greenville, South Carolina.
Morris said her daughter was less than a year from college graduation when she took an interest in flying.
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Ms Suu Kyi will also visit the college in Delhi she attended in the 1960s, when her mother was Burmese ambassador.
At another point during the town hall, Clinton was asked about what lessons she had learned by being involved in student government when in college.
Fresh from college, she was hired as a business analyst at a private company in New Hampshire and handed a massive packet of information from human resources.
New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, a leading candidate for mayor, discussed her history with bulimia and alcoholism for the first time in public at a Barnard College forum Tuesday, saying she thought it was important to "come out of hiding" about her personal struggles.
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