Word: ina
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Caro began his career as a reporter the Long Island newspaper Newsday, and admits that “it was at Harvard that I decided to write [my first book].” While a Nieman Fellow in 1965, his wife Ina, also a writer, was unable to stay with him in Boston, so he spent most evenings “in a tiny office in Leverett, sitting and thinking...
...also reports "systematic and glaring racial discrimination" in maternity wards and gynecology departments, Roma women often being prohibited from using even the same toilets and dining facilities as other patients. "It's a racist policy and I think it is conducted with the tacit support of the government," says Ina Zoon, a Madrid-based minority-rights consultant who worked on the report. "If the government doesn't know, it's incompetent; if it does, it is covering up." Plachetkova didn't experience segregation during the birth of her two daughters, but she does believe that Slovak doctors conspire to prevent...
Another source of income for Shetlanders is wool. I asked Ina Irvine, 63 (whose husband is Willie's first cousin), a professional knitter who spins her own wool, why the Shetland variety is so soft and durable. "The sheep here are small, and they have a soft fleece," she says. "I've been told that the sheep that are put on the hills have a softer wool because they're eating a more coarse grass." The respected craft is diminishing, and Shetlanders are trying to maintain it among the younger generations by teaching it in the schools...
...Ina Mogollon...