Word: barbarae
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Prairie Reunion by Barbara J. Scot (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 230 pages; $21) is a bittersweet homecoming story tracing the author's return in middle age to the puritannical farming community where she grew up. In Scotch Grove, Iowa, she tries to piece together the puzzle of her mother's loving stoicism in the face of her father's humiliating desertion and subsequent suicide. Structured as a patchwork of conversations, childhood recollections and lyrical encounters with the land, Scot's quietly earnest quest yields her valuable understanding of her mother's reticence and a deeper appreciation of the mysteries of family...
...Barbara Roberts, one of the panelists and the former governor of Oregon, spoke out on women in leadership positions...
...JUDGE. Aside from Judge Lance Ito's lax hand on the whip, which allowed the lawyers to grill witnesses endlessly and argue and reargue points of law, Professor Barbara Babcock of Stanford Law School observes that Judge Ito was often late to arrive and took time to usher celebrities into his chambers. "If you sequester a jury, there should be pressure on everyone to go as fast as you can," she says. "I've never seen a sequestered jury treated this way. I think the message they got was that neither their time nor they were important." Motions should...
...Reported by Edward W. Desmond/Tokyo and Barbara Rudolph/New York
...BARBARA EHRENREICH, IN "FOR WOMEN, China Is All Too Typical'' [ESSAY, Sept. 18], complained that the position of women is bad all over the world, including in the U.S., and that there are "precious few female-friendly spots" where the women's conference could have been held. Instead of criticizing, wouldn't it be better if American feminists found it in their hearts to work for harmony between the two sexes? Then people like me might feel more sympathy when feminists complain about the lot of women in those countries where their treatment is genuinely bad. ROHIT PARIKH New York...