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...supportive and helpful as a Seeing Eye dog. She is pleased by her growing mastery of French cooking, but what she's really exultant about is the growing number of comments on her blog. She has followers, the contemporary dream. After the New York Times's Amanda Hesser writes about her, Julie returns home to 65 messages from assorted agents, publishers and reporters and delightedly tells Eric, "I'm going to be a writer!" By then we know her ambition well enough to be surprised she's not crowing, "I'm going to be famous...
...Great Depression but in some ways worsened it. TIME contributor Peter Beinart, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, looks at how Roosevelt understood that he could not lead Americans into war until they understood that their vital interests were at stake, while fellow TIME contributor Amanda Ripley shows how Eleanor Roosevelt's agenda differed from her husband...
...Amanda Knox has finally spoken. Ever since the 21-year-old American student was arrested in Italy in late 2007 and charged with the grisly murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher, tabloids on both sides of the Atlantic have bubbled with scandal and speculation. Was she, as Italian and British reports suggest, a promiscuous party girl who lived like a slob and took strange men back to the house? Did she, as Italian prosecutors allege, cut Kercher's throat after she refused to take part in group sex with Knox; Knox's boyfriend at the time, Raffaele Sollecito...
Urban Dictionary, a Web site that defines slang words and phrases, has a single listing for Domna: “Female gatekeeper of freshman dining halls. She swipes your cards and steals your hearts. Domna - the dominator.” And in 1998, a Crimson article by Amanda P. Fortini '98 included “try to get into Annenberg for lunch, just to see Domna again,” in a list of 100 things to do before graduating...
...Knox, Amanda • jurors in Italian trial of for the throat-slitting murder of roommate of are told by that "from what I saw in CSI these things are not quick or pleasant" but, rather, "shocking, yucky, disgusting...