Word: joans
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Administration: Suzanne Davis, Susan Lynd, Clementina Allured, Hope Almash, Melissa August, Sharon Boger, Donald N. Collins, Joan A. Connelly, Eileen Harkin, Susanna M. Schrobsdorff News Desks: Douglas Dale, Brian Doyle, Waits L. May III, Jacalyn McConnell, John F. McDonald, David Richardson, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Joanne Waugh, Ann Drury Wellford, Jean R. White, Mary Wormley...
...Joan W. Scott, a social scientist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, discussed the development of women's history as a field and the importance of integrating women into the study of history as a whole...
...Wednesday some 200 members of the National Writers Union demonstrated in front of the Iranian mission to the United Nations. And in New York City's SoHo district, 21 American writers, including Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag and Joan Didion, met to exchange brave words and read passages from the Rushdie novel. Christopher Hitchens, a columnist for the Nation, received the loudest response when he said, "Until the threat of murder by contract is lifted, all authors should declare themselves as coconspirators. It is time for all of us to don the yellow star and end the hateful isolation...
...problem with respect to lifting mandatory retirement is that the longer the annuity is there, the greater the sum will be, so at some point not too soon after age 70, the pension will be greater than income," says Joan Bruce, the University benefits director...
Also nominated for best supporting actress were Joan Cusack from Working Girl, Geena Davis for The Accidental Tourist, Frances McDormand for Mississippi Burning and Michelle Pfeiffer for Dangerous Liaisons...