Word: edmond
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...since 1982 when she persuaded Oxford University Press to let her rewrite One Thousand and One Arabian Nights for young readers. Since then, McCaughrean has spent much of her career recrafting the classics - Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Melville - for new generations. Her just-published version of Cyrano de Bergerac, mines Edmond Rostand's fin de siècle romcom for what it has to say about the power of language to transcend life's banalities, rather than for big-nose jokes. McCaughrean hopes that teenage lovers, raised on a diet of "wall-to-wall sex, violence and misery," will buy Cyrano...
...padded his résumé. One instance: in 2002, when he was nominated as FEMA's deputy director, documents Brown submitted for his Senate confirmation hearing--which lasted all of 42 minutes--led Connecticut's Joseph Lieberman to cite the nominee's "useful experience ... as assistant city manager in Edmond [Okla.], with responsibility for police, fire and emergency services." But according to Brown's former boss, then city manager Bill Dashner, as well as current Edmond officials, that job description was overblown. "He was my administrative assistant," Dashner says. "Every now and again, I'd ask him to write...
...White House's advance office, whose primary mission is making the President look good. None had disaster experience. TIME.com reported last week that Brown appears to have padded his own résumé by, among other things, claiming to have been a manager of emergency services in Edmond, Okla., when he was actually "more of an intern," according to a city official...
...Before joining FEMA, his only previous stint in emergency management, according to his bio posted on FEMA's website, was "serving as an assistant city manager with emergency services oversight." The White House press release from 2001 stated that Brown worked for the city of Edmond, Okla., from 1975 to 1978 "overseeing the emergency services division." In fact, according to Claudia Deakins, head of public relations for the city of Edmond, Brown was an "assistant to the city manager" from 1977 to 1980, not a manager himself, and had no authority over other employees. "The assistant is more like...
...Under the heading of "Professional Associations and Memberships" on FindLaw, Brown states that from 1983 to the present he has been director of the Oklahoma Christian Home, a nursing home in Edmond. But an administrator with the Home told TIME that Brown is "not a person that anyone here is familiar with." She says there was a board of directors until a couple of years ago, but she couldn't find anyone who recalled him being on it. According to FEMA's Andrews, Brown said "he's never claimed to be the director of the home...