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...allowing press access to the class--a poorly conceived rule in itself--is different from the blanket order prohibiting students from speaking to reporters, which Epps and Gates had more trouble defending...
...just-the-facts-Ma'am summary of their conversation would go like this: she fantasizes about having sex with three house painters, while he tells her how he and an office co-worker sat in his apartment, covered by a blanket, and silently, separately masturbated to a porn film...
Sister Delia says, "Our mother was not the warmest person, but she established our world. I think of her as a security blanket without the warmth. She had an opinion on everything, and we ((daughters)), who are just as opinionated, did everything she told us to. The Ephron girls do not join sororities or any organized religion." Each daughter had to take two years of Latin and three years of French in high school. "God forbid we should have anything to do with science," Delia recalls. Delia grew up resisting the idea of writing altogether: "Nora had staked that...
...verge of final action; 88 more await government approval. They are the first patches in a quilt of autonomous schools -- which are tax supported and tuition free but in effect can operate as if they were privately run -- that the country's Conservative government hopes will blanket the country...
...Bobigny self-interest has replaced ideology, and the Communists have built their political machine on a hair-trigger response to the grass roots. "They blanket the city," says opposition city councilor Jean-Luc Romero. "The moment anyone loses a job, a party worker stops by to offer help, part-time employment or a social subsidy." Among Bobigny's 44,000 residents, the 2,700 Communist activists are organized into 70 neighborhood and factory- based cells. If a family cannot pay the rent in its low-income housing project, the local cell leader will intervene with the authorities. If police show...