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Four years after Moore's death in 1951, Lewis fell in love with someone young enough to be his daughter. Chicago-born Joy Davidman Gresham, a Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism, had two sons from a failing marriage. When she and Lewis wed -- privately, since Anglican canon law barred his marriage to a divorcee -- he was 58; Joy was 39 and already suffering from the cancer that would kill...
Still, there is a grudging consensus that the microwave prepares certain foods, like fresh vegetables, very well indeed. Roger Berkowitz, co-owner of the highly regarded Legal Sea Foods restaurants in the Boston area, has become a convert to microwaving shrimp and lobsters at home, though he warns that "you have about ten seconds to leave the room, or you see their claws hit the oven window." Both microwave-oven size and New England tradition militate against applying this technique in his restaurants. As Berkowitz puts it, "How do you tell someone, 'I just nuked your lobster...
Early last week his advisers told Bush that his veto could not be sustained in Congress. Adamant, Bush and his combative chief of staff, John Sununu, insisted the White House must prevail if Bush were to convert his passive public approval to tangible political clout. In an interview with TIME on the eve of the China vote, Bush urged that Congress not "just seek confrontation in an election year." He warned, "I won't be any pushover...
Junior guard Dina Hadrick and freshman center Debbie Flandermeyer each hit baskets to put Harvard ahead for good. The Elis failed to score on their next possession and fouled Jen Mazanec. The junior forward missed the front end of a one-and-one, but Yale could not convert on a last-ditch effort to steal...
Dowds also took issue with Spence's long-range plan eventually to convert the hotel to faculty office space...