Word: birthed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were great writers and journeymen, both: the Nobel laureates Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, Kenzaburo Oe and Derek Walcott as well as critically and popularly acclaimed authors E. Annie Proulx, Tobias Wolff, Chinua Achebe, Frederick Busch, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton and dozens of others. A hundred years after Hemingway's birth and 38 years after his death, the subject of the conference was how Hemingway has held up--not just his works, but necessarily the man himself. What is so striking about the Hemingway photograph I have discussed is not only that the subject seems so consummately the perfect masculine celebrity...
...confidently assert, however, that FM has always, does always and will always come out on Thursday mornings, chock full of information on fun stuff to do. And just as those at the wedding in Cana had to drink wine made from water and Mary had to give birth in an inn, those few Harvard students who still don't have dinner plans should take salvation from whichever publication it comes. Happy searching...
Worse than being biased, your article is racist when it implies that Wen Ho Lee would spy for China because he is Chinese. Why would Lee, a Taiwanese by birth, help China reclaim Taiwan? Obviously, you have not learned from your mistake in World War II when you mistrusted a great many American citizens because they were Japanese or of Japanese descent. VINCENT LIM Singapore...
...week because of an infertility treatment mix-up that impregnated her with two embryos: one created by her egg and her husband's sperm, the other by an African-American couple who had been seeing the same specialist at the same time. She carried both embryos to term, giving birth to two beautiful but noticeably different boys and raising them for three months, during which time they shared the same crib, the same swing, the same parents. Then when a black couple came forth claiming to be the biological parents of one of her twins, she faced a truly Solomonic...
...Duke Ellington, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, was given a special music citation "in recognition of his musical genius, which evoked aesthetically the principles of democracy through the medium of jazz and thus made an indelible contribution to art and culture." The award went over much better than Elia Kazan...