Word: forgottenness
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...what it means for a woman to “make history.” FROM JOURNALS TO T-SHIRTSUlrich, whose book “A Midwife’s Tale” was awarded the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in History, said that for a long time she had forgotten the offhand remark about “well-behaved women.” She penned it in her very first academic publication, a 1976 journal article that appeared in “American Quarterly,” while she was still in graduate school. The article argued that the emphasis...
...that meant that Musharraf received all but two or three of the votes cast, lending legitimacy to his election. In the meantime, Bhutto will get blanket amnesty for corruption charges leveled against her and her husband, Asif Zadari. On Thursday Musharraf told Dawn TV that while he had not forgotten about the corruption charges, "There is a greater need to bring together forces that believe in moderation to take on religious extremism," and that "there is no harm in engaging [Bhutto] in the dialogue process...
...tolerant, their handbags messianic, and their maids affluent seem perfectly comfortable propping up the demand side of a trade which forces thousands of Americans into a life at the margins of society. Between all of their insistences that pot doesn’t hurt people, they seem to have forgotten that the stuff has to come from somewhere. And this is quite a large omission to make...
Tania Head told her story of survival again and again, quietly and memorably, so that the atrocities of 9/11 would not be forgotten. She told it to me in the summer of 2004, over coffee in Times Square. Head was on the 78th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center when a plane struck the building, she said. The fire burned her terribly. She made it out, only to discover that she'd left her life behind: her fiancé was in the North Tower, she said, and he had died. She did not dwell...
...related to Habitat for Humanity? Ruth Bennett, Sterling Heights, Mich. The Carter Center is completely separate. We put in 51 weeks a year on the center and one week on Habitat. The center is designed to meet the needs of the poorest and most forgotten people in the world. We deal with neglected diseases. We mediate disputes. The thing that gets the most publicity is Habitat. Last year we built 100 homes in India in just four days because Brad Pitt showed up and we were inundated with unanticipated volunteers...