Word: barbarae
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Mimi surfaced in a roundabout way. At the Kennedy Library, author Robert Dallek, when writing his new J.F.K. biography, An Unfinished Life, came across an oral history done in 1964 by one of the gentlest, most ardent Kennedy supporters in existence, Barbara Gamarekian. In it Gamarekian, who had worked in the White House press office and later became a reporter for the New York Times, talks about Mimi; but she had embargoed that section of her reminiscences. Dallek persuaded her to release...
...occupation of Iraq, it's clear that bringing security--to say nothing of democracy--to a broken country is more easily pledged than done. Bremer's predecessor, retired Lieut. General Jay Garner, fared so poorly from the start that one of his own underlings in Iraq, career diplomat Barbara Bodine, sounded the alarm. She dashed off scathing reports to colleagues back in Washington warning that he was in danger of losing the peace, according to officials at the State Department and the Baghdad-based Office of Humanitarian and Reconstruction Assistance (OHRA). (Bodine declined to comment for this article.) The inability...
...Hanna and Magdalena Graaf, who these days devote themselves to helping street children in India. What awed us most about the night wasn't meeting famous heroes. It was hearing from the unsung heroes about the impact being recognized in TIME has had on their work. Polish homeless advocates Barbara and Tomasz Sadowski told us that TIME's coverage is helping them in their fight to pass a new law designed to create job opportunities for the unemployed and homeless. Yiannis Boutaris, who was Greece's most famous vintner before he devoted himself to animal rights, told the crowd that...
This close collaboration with FAS scientists was something Randall and Radcliffe Dean of Science Barbara J. Grosz had in mind when they first recruited this cluster’s participants to Radcliffe—and something they hope to continue with future fellowships...
...Texan) and Sex and the Single Girl (to humiliate prim sex-book author Natalie Wood, magazine writer Tony Curtis feigns being a frustrated husband seeking counseling). Now as then, the two leads must run the gamut of passion, rancor and against-their-wills romance--all in glam Manhattan penthouses (Barbara's digs were inspired by the How to Marry a Millionaire set), where the not-quite lovers swig martinis to the underscoring of wisecracking trombones...