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...They warned me," says author Perry, who lives in Studio City, Calif., with his wife, scriptwriter Jo Perry, and their two small children. "Friends said, 'Don't let Jane get married, or she'll maybe even, you know, have a baby.'" Perry, who is white, was reared in Tonawanda, in upstate New York, in what is still to some extent Seneca country. Making Whitefield a cross-cultural Seneca (novelist Tony Hillerman's Navajo cop Jim Chee, for instance, seems more thoroughly Indian) gave Perry an opportunity to learn more about the local Native American culture. And making her a woman...
...last Friday's Washington Post, I read an article headlined "A Renaissance Man's Artful Living," by Jo Ann Lewis. This coloum was supplement to an obituary for Sydney J. Freedberg '36, Porter professor emeritus of Fine Arts, who died on May 6 in Washington...
...police met the group's demand to release Robert Jonathan Scheidt, their security chief who had been jailed on a weapons charge. McLaren is negotiating with state and federal officials from his trailer, which he calls the "embassy" of the Republic. He is seeking the release of another member, Jo Ann Canady Turner, and demands that a referendum be held to decide whether Texas should become an independent republic. Spokesmen for two groups each claiming to be the official government of the Republic of Texas have been quick to disavow McLaren, who was kicked out of any official capacity...
Harvard freshman Nancy Jo took third in the 200 freestyle and was part of the 800 and 200 freestyle teams that also placed third. In the 800 relay, she teamed with junior Jennifer Steffen, freshman Heather Lindman and Deveney. In the 200, she led off a team that included Deveney and juniors Sandie Stringfellow and Keiko Iwahara...
...overhaul of welfare. The most notable federal initiative is Early Head Start, which was created in 1994 when Congress reauthorized funding for Head Start, the 32-year-old program that brings three-, four- and five- year-olds into classroom settings in part to prepare them for school. Mary Jo Bane was working at the time at the Department of Health and Human Services (she quit over welfare reform), and she led a task force charged with finding ways to improve Head Start. Child-development experts, she says, "pointed the group toward the importance of interventions earlier than age four...