Word: helene
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...plans to be a writer in some capacity after graduating from Oxford, and she attributes much of her success to “the opportunity to work with very talented writers and critics of literature, in particular professors Jamaica Kincaid, Elaine Scarry, and Helen Vendler...
...issue that might attract even the most religiously jaded. In doing so, he managed (for better or worse) to reanimate the clash-of-civilizations discussion by focusing scrutiny on the core question of whether Islam, as a religion, sanctions violence. He was hailed by cultural conservatives worldwide. Says Helen Hull Hitchcock, a St. Louis, Mo., lay leader who heads the conservative Catholic organization Women for Faith and Family: "He has said what needed to be said...
...Helen Molesworth was appointed as the first full curator of contemporary art of the Harvard University Art Museums in an announcement last Friday...
...antidote to the cost spiral: puny raises and fatter deductibles. "Most companies realize they couldn't hire anybody if they didn't offer medical benefits," says Helen Darling, president of the National Business Group on Health. "But they also expect employees to share more of the burden." Workers can't help feeling it. According to Department of Labor statistics, salaries rose 3% from June 2005 to June 2006, but inflation rose 4.7% and health care...
Retired government worker Helen Blanks, 67, of Sierra Vista, Ariz., discovered the EWC website by accident but now answers about seven to 10 letters a week. When she spotted a request from a young woman in an interracial relationship who wondered if love could conquer all--even family disapproval--Blanks knew she had to answer. The product of an interracial marriage, Blanks had experienced firsthand what challenges might lie ahead. "I told her how one set of my grandparents would have nothing to do with me," she says. "I asked if she and her boyfriend were strong enough to handle...