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...catch fire? Sometimes I imagine a purely prosaic event like a cracked furnace or cheap Christmas lights sparking on the rug. Sometimes I picture a modern-day Mrs. Danvers from Rebecca standing in the upstairs window, her mad hair swathed in flames, or the first Mrs. Rochester from Jane Eyre as she raves on the roof before torching the joint...
DIED. JOAN HICKSON, 92, British character actress; in Colchester, England. Hickson, whose career on the stage and screen began in 1927, won international fame in 1984 as a septuagenarian--TV's sharp-witted sleuth Miss Jane Marple, in the BBC series Mystery! Queen Elizabeth II, a devoted fan of Hickson, awarded her the Order of the British Empire...
...know that women are taking a larger and larger role in peace negotiations," said Jane J. Mansbridge, who heads the Women and Public Policy program at the Kennedy School...
...failing sitcoms these days, and that's one reason Dateline NBC's Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips, now on five nights a week, seem to have become the official hosts of the NBC television network. Yet 60 Minutes, after 30 years still the highest-rated network magazine show, has managed to remain largely above this fray. It steers away (most of the time) from the tabloid subjects and celebrity interviews that its rivals use to goose ratings; it actually pays attention to foreign news once in a while; and it is still, quaintly, on the air only once a week...
...Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia, which spent nearly three years on best-seller lists, triggered a surge of creative solutions. A corporate-sponsored program, Take Our Daughters to Work Day, spread across the U.S. in an effort to encourage girls to examine varied careers. In Lincoln, Neb., teacher Jane Edwards partners with a local architectural firm to challenge high school girls to use technology, math and science to solve design problems. In Aurora, Colo., middle school teacher Pam Schmidt has created Eocene Park, a paleontology field school that encourages girls to explore this traditionally male-dominated science...