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...Look, Sandra Day O’Connor graduated third in her class at Stanford Law and the only job she could get out of law school was as one of the ‘girls’ in the secretarial pool at a law firm. So I guess that we rallied against the word ‘girls’ because it became shorthand for the refusal of the male chauvinist pigs to treat us as mature adults who could assume responsible roles in society rather than as their girl servants...
...guess,” she says playfully. “I bet you’d be wrong,” replies Hoge, and she is. It’s not Pearl, but rather Leland’s expat father Albert, who, having abandoned his family to live and write in France, returns after the murder. Though the motivations of Albert, portrayed with steely sullenness by Kevin Spacey, are unclear, there are allusions that he may smell material for a new novel...
...don’t really have any particular traditions of my own. In fact, I’ve been known to walk under ladders and utter the name of that Scottish Shakespearean tragedy backstage, so I guess I’m not particularly superstitious either...
...pilfered bikes at a time. Except for the whole free love/drug use thing, our Cantabrigian community might be Amsterdam’s kid sibling: Cambridge is the bike theft capital of Massachusetts, and the greater Boston area ranks sixth nationally among the worst cities for bicycle larceny. So I guess I had it coming...
...founded by Hawley called Friendly Planet, which builds and supports schools in Bhutan and Cambodia. Hawley, director of special projects at MIT and a faculty member at the famed Media Lab for 10 years, says he received about two dozen orders even before the book was launched. Guess there must a market for really heavy reading out there...