Word: glasgowe
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Known as Scotty because he was born near Glasgow, Scotland, in 1909, Reston was raised in Dayton, Ohio, under difficult circumstances. He was nearly expelled from the University of Illinois journalism school when a Depression-era bank failure made his $100 tuition check bounce. Memories of his early penury, Stacks says, and his immigrant's outsider mentality stuck with Reston through his life, even though by his 40s he was a well-paid pillar of the East Coast establishment...
...tractor trailer, no one thought she would be here now, busily concentrating in psychology, dancing with and coordinating children’s programming for the Indian dance troupe Ghungroo, walking, talking, or hastily scribbling notes in class. According to Guttentag, her score on the Glasgow Coma Scale when she first arrived at the hospital in her hometown of Greensboro, N.C. that day in June was four, on a scale of 3-15, where anything above eight carries a good chance of survival. She suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and was in a coma for 16 days...
...Glasgow, a Turkish Kurd refugee is seeking compensation from the Home Office, claiming a decision to force him to stay in the city - where he and his family have been the victims of racist attacks - breaches his human rights. In Paris, a young Algerian woman is suing her employer for unlawful dismissal after she was fired for refusing to adjust her headscarf. Europe is home to some 12.5 million Muslims who suffer high unemployment - and, since Sept. 11 - growing mistrust from non-Muslims. One sign of the tension came when the French government tried to create a representative council...
...Ramsay wisely resisted the temptation to insert a Hollywood-style pop-psychological back-story. Her heroine, she says, is just "an ordinary girl in extraordinary circumstances who acts in a way that is totally unconventional." This is familiar territory for Ramsay. In Ratcatcher, set in a grim 1970s Glasgow housing project during a refuse collectors' strike, a young boy tries to send his pet mouse into outer space, tied to a balloon. Ramsay came late to that kind of weirdness. Raised in a working class district of Glasgow, she was weaned on nothing more unconventional than Douglas Sirk and Bette...
...made him a sought-after commodity. He now has the luxury of choosing his projects and turned down a part in Martin Scorsese's forthcoming Gangs of New York to make The Magdalene Sisters. Hollywood has beckoned but Mullan still sees himself as a working-class lad from Glasgow. "It's like the 'Are you still a Catholic?' question," he says. "I was brought up a Catholic until I was 18. I was economically working class until I was 37. I can't escape in that I'm working class, but I'm very lucky in that my work...