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According to Reuters, on January 20 in Washington, a special guest at the Florida state inaugural ball was introduced by country singer Larry Gatlin. He said, "In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa, and in Florida there was Katherine Harris...
Help provided by co-workers isn't always formalized. In 1993 Joan Frier, now a public relations manager for SHARE, a national breast- and ovarian-cancer advocacy group based in New York City, started a new job as a legal text editor while recovering from breast cancer. Her bosses sometimes had unrealistic expectations, and it was her co-workers who gave her day-to-day encouragement. "They would take on some tasks for me, cover for my mistakes and help me with new things," she recalls. "I couldn't have done it without these people...
...Someone has to listen to all those anti-TV activists; it may as well be me. A typical comment from Joan Anderson, author of Getting Unplugged and Breaking the TV Habit: "TV is not a member of the family; it's a stranger. Would you let a stranger into your child's bedroom?" Amen...
...From the moment she entered the national stage she became a divining rod of public taste. If you liked big hair, frosty-blue eyeshadow and over-blushed cheeks, then you were thrilled to see a woman so well-groomed. This is a woman who got her style clues from Joan Collins as Alexis Carrington. And, moreover, didn't see anything wrong with...
...Broadway site offers "simple elegance that we can hold onto," said Joan Qualls Harris, who sat on a library advisory committee...