Word: joan
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...youth. Virtually channeling her mother, she had all the intensity, and nearly the magic, of Vanessa Redgrave in her early radiance. (In an ironic and infuriating example of life imitating art, Redgrave was last on Broadway two years ago in the one-woman show The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion's memoir of her husband's sudden death while their daughter Quintana, stricken by pneumonia and septic shock, lay unconscious in a New York City hospital...
...Bush's successor and the war in Iraq left the front pages, things have been quieter. Along Prairie Chapel Road, the country lane leading to the Bush ranch, the crosses symbolizing the war dead, the makeshift tents, the signs, the satellite trucks, the flag-draped Harley-Davidsons, the Joan Baezes and the right-wing talk-radio hosts are all gone. Sheehan quit her protest, disillusioned with both Republican and Democratic leaders, in 2007. The once flattened roadside grass, parched yellow by drought, now stands straight. The only movement is a hawk landing on a fence post, a horse pawing...
...that complexity poses a unique challenge for the media, one that in its increasingly decimated state it may be ill-equipped to meet, as Eric Pooley - the former editor of Fortune and a Time contributor - argues in a recent paper for Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center. It was difficult enough for reporters, even scientifically literate ones, to dig through dense studies and accurately gauge the state of climatology. Now the big questions facing environmental reporters are not so much scientific as economic, as the country comes to grip with the true cost of fighting climate change. And national politics...
...heard you saved cookbook author Joan Nathan's life with the Heimlich maneuver at an Inauguration party this year. Is that true? It's true. It all happened so quickly. I was literally three feet from her. I was having a conversation with somebody else. She came in, and I looked to my right and I saw her holding her throat and two people next to her patting her back. And I walked over, put my arms around her and said, "Can you talk?" She said no. I hit her once. I asked her again. She said...
...religions, though the burden of premarital abstinence has largely rested on the bride. Prepubescent marriages and gruesome practices like genital mutilation and the imposition of chastity belts have long been used in the name of guarding a girl's "purity." Tales of famous (and famously celibate) females like Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I and Florence Nightingale, to name a few, have helped uphold this chaste ideal, while medical literature from as late as the 19th century advised men to preserve their semen to boost vitality--a notion that dates back to Hippocrates and continues to this day among superstitious...