Word: helene
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...retired last month as a top international counterterrorism agent at the FBI. "They've introduced a technique that we knew about and were concerned about," he warns, "but are not prepared to deal with." --Reported by Timothy J. Burger, Viveca Novak and Elaine Shannon/Washington; Bruce Crumley/Paris; Walter Gibbs/Oslo; Helen Gibson/London; Samuel Loewenberg and Jane Walker/Madrid; Scott Macleod/Cairo; Pelin Turgut/Istanbul; and Enrique Zaldua/San Sebastian
...older group of female professionals who came of age listening to Helen Reddy roar, the exodus of younger women can seem disturbingly regressive. Fay Clayton, 58, a partner in a small Chicago law firm, watched in dismay as her 15-person firm lost three younger women who left after having kids, though one has since returned part time. "I fear there is a generational split and possibly a step backwards for younger women," she says...
...core course is called ”Poems, Poets, Poetry.” But it’s not just Harvard students who associate her with these words: for the literary world, A. Kingsley University Professor of English Helen Vendler means poetry. Poets hope she will sit up and take notice of their work; the criticism she has written on both living and dead bards has become a canon...
...that it merely needs to convince Americans of the intrinsic rightness of its position by presenting them with a fait accompli. Harvard is not alone, though; many scientists elsewhere forge ahead with stem cell research, insensible to ethical objections, and this is justified with the rhetoric of progressivism. Helen M. Blau, director of the Baxter Laboratory in Genetic Pharmacology at Stanford University School of Medicine, frets that as “leaders of biomedical research,” American scientists on the whole are “falling behind.” Such talk of progress obscures the ethical questions?...
...Agamemnon, Tess Mullen ’04 was eerily mad, whirling blindly while brandishing a sword and promising to kill her “husband”. Meneleus, performed by Richard J. Powell ’04, was dressed somewhere between a trailer park inhabitant, Egyptian, and rapper. Helen of Troy, was portrayed by Leah R. Lussier ’07 as a pouty sexpot accustomed to using her wiles...