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...accumulate proteges, and within two weeks of her arrival she is heavily involved in the lives of a career doctor who lives downstairs: a once promising teenage ballet dancer newly crippled in a car accident: a young bishop who looks strikingly like a man by whom Katherine secretly bore a child: and the bishop's retired predecessor, Felix Bodeway, who also figured in a previous L 'Engle novel about Katherine's youth...
...secret discussions bore fruit last Thursday in a meeting in the Speaker's office that included O'Neill, Stockman, Democratic Whip Thomas Foley, Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas and Presidential Aides James Baker, Richard Darman and Kenneth Duberstein. The $4.3 billion package, which will create only 125,000 new jobs, contains less than first meets the eye. It is mainly the acceleration of scheduled projects, and thus involves only about $700 million in new spending. But from a symbolic standpoint, it allows the Democrats to claim a victory for the jobless while allowing Reagan to meet...
Funderburk, who maintains that he has no plans to cut back the liberal arts, argues that the budget crunch forced economies in all areas and that the library bore its fair share. He has since secured $300,000 in additional funding for the library. "I shifted the emphasis to salaries and keeping as many people as I could," he says of his general philosophy. Indeed, under Funderburk, no one on the teaching staff has been laid off because of a lack of money. Funderburk claims that his efforts to strengthen the agriculture and engineering programs are simply a response...
Three weeks ago, the nation recoiled at the story of a microcephalic child, called Baby Doe by the court, who apparently was born without parents. Judy Stiver, the surrogate mother who bore him after being artificially inseminated, claimed that Baby Doe belonged to Alexander Malahoff, who had contracted to pay Stiver $10,000 on delivery. Malahoff, who is separated from his wife, and who hoped the baby might reunite them, accepted the deformed child in the beginning, and had him baptized. Later he rejected the boy, contending Baby Doe was not his own. Last week a blood test proved...
...productively on Graves' leading partner in Goddess worship, Poet Laura Riding, who lived with him from 1926 to 1939. The couple never exchanged marriage vows and after a brief time even stopped sleeping together. The relationship began in London with the blessing of Graves' first wife, Nancy Nicholson, who bore the poet four children but refused to accept his name...