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...would be more truthful to reference a “group of white upper middle class mothers with equally well-to-do husbands.” Indeed, the women that Basham upholds as paradigms of her “career partner” include the wife of the founder of Amazon.com and the wife of the former CEO of Time Warner. These are women who relinquish financial autonomy and rely on their husbands for monetary support. Yet, for the majority of women, the decision to leave the workplace in order to become their husbands’ most dutiful cheerleaders...
...make cuts in the grips of recession, the appetizer, entree, and dessert may be the first things to go. The company holiday party, once an obligatory, lavish celebration, has become “gauche” in a time of pink slips and downsized bonuses, said desserterie Finale co-Founder and President Paul D. Consorti. And Cambridge’s high-end eateries are feeling the pinch. “We had a company, that will remain nameless, cancel their annual holiday party because the week before they had laid off a bunch of employees,” Consorti said...
Best known for his roles in “Saturday Night Live,” “Driving Miss Daisy,” and “Ghostbusters,” Aykroyd is also the founder of the House of Blues, a music club chain...
While biological warfare might seem an extreme measure to some animal-protection advocates, international bat expert Merlin Tuttle, founder of Bat Conservation International, says that's the best way to handle vampires. The problem, Tuttle says, is when people - motivated by fear, ignorance or both - target all bats for extermination by dynamiting caves, which causes enormous environmental damage and often kills thousand of beneficial bats that eat insects, pollinate flowers and even disperse seeds as part of natural reforestation. Blood feeders, on the other hand, are extremely rare - only three out of 1,100 species of bat are vampires...
...Ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of St. Louis on June 19, 1976. He earned his doctorate in American-church history at the Catholic University of America in Washington in 1983. His dissertation was on Archbishop Edwin V. O'Hara, a founder of the Catholic Biblical Association of America...