Word: bernard
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...Bernard Berkman is an uncertain egotist. The author of several novels that beguiled the literati once upon a time, he now has no agent--so he feels he has to promote himself, even to his own family. (He refers to Kafka as "one of my predecessors.") The rest of his life is getting away from him too. His tennis game isn't what it used to be. His wife, restless in his shadow, has turned to writing and got a story in the New Yorker. She has also called off their marriage, leaving their two sons shuffling back and forth...
...Bernard Parham...
...think in general the student body is pretty reasonable and we recognize that grade inflation is an issue that many Universities have to deal with, including ours,” Undergraduate Student Government President Leslie-Bernard Joseph wrote in an e-mail. “What concerns students most are those instances where we feel we are graded down, especially unfairly, in the name of grade deflation...
...have different views. The K?ng dinner is, in fact, Benedict's third potentially controversial encounter in the past month. In late August, the pope met with the Italian writer Oriana Fallaci, who has penned fiercely anti-Muslim books since 9/11, and then two days later he welcomed Bishop Bernard Fellay, the excommunicated head of an ultraconservative movement founded by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre...
...former Tyco executives entered the courtroom Monday with one-time WorldCom Chairman Bernard Ebbers already having been sentenced to 25 years in prison for the $11 billion accounting fraud that toppled his company (which has emerged from bankruptcy as MCI) and Adelphia Communications founder John Rigas having been sentenced to 15 years in prison for looting and fraud at his company. His son and former finance chief, Timothy Rigas, got 20 years...