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...told me a year before she was killed that she wanted to write about politics, but they wouldn't let her anywhere near it," says Prendiville. "She was too political. She was a republican. But all that is airbrushed from her memory now. It's not part of the Joan of Arc image." Even the attempts to show Guerin's flaws have come under fire. In the film, Guerin's obsession with her work seeps into her family life until she starts neglecting her husband and 6-year-old son, Cathal. In a poignant scene, Cathal is unwrapping his birthday...
...think it’s disgraceful. It’s a very sad time for us,” said Riverside resident Joan Qualls-Harris. “I think this sort of thing is happening across the country, and I’m afraid that it’s something that’s not going to stop if we don’t have police and community connected to address the issue...
...Students find themselves competing for internships and summer programs with newly minted grads willing to take anything to get a foot in the door. "The traditional recruiters who've hired from us for years [for summer programs] are hiring fewer students. Some aren't hiring at all," says Joan Mark, director of cooperative education and career services at Pace University in New York City...
What did we do? Some might say we spent a solid four years glorifying other people. Maybe there’s something to be said for that. Four years, and we’ve given Carl Morris and Joan Yenne and Brian Lentz countless clippings for albums, for children and grandkids and rainy days. Even the anonymous ones—the golfers, the swimmers—even they have their clippings. And the writing, should they bother to look back and compare, beats the heck out of what you’ll find in most such papers...
...couple of years ago, for example, a San Francisco playwright named Joan Holden had the somewhat unpromising notion of turning Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich's best-selling book about her experiences as a minimum-wage worker, into a stage play. The result is an episodic but incisive series of vignettes about the impossibility of making ends meet while waiting tables in Florida, scrubbing toilets in Maine and stocking discount-store shelves in Minnesota. Nickel & Dimed has its deficiencies as drama, but it's a rare example of theater that tries to open people's eyes to the way life...