Word: joni
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Meanwhile, at my summer digs—an MIT-affiliated enclave of feminist physicist types known as the Women’s Independent Living Group (WILG)—Joni Mitchell is blaring and Cary Grant is starring on the living room tube...
...corners in the orphanage, which consists of a small chicken run, four huts fashioned out of wood and bamboo where the children and adults sleep, an open air concrete toilet and a musholla, or prayer room. A skinny 9-year-old gathers his courage to speak: "I was named Joni by my parents, but that was when I was still an infidel. I am Zulhakim now that I'm a Muslim." He looks around to make sure he isn't being watched. "Sometimes, when no one sees me, I cry at nights because I miss my mother so much. They...
...Powell Ranger Station is built near the old campsite. Joni Packard, the ranger in charge, wonders why anyone would want to cross the Lolo in this weather. "The snowpack is 120% of normal, and the temperatures we are seeing now are...unusual," she says. The rangers have not been up in the high country since last fall. On our next morning we start hiking up the Wendover Ridge, the route that Toby eventually recovered. The narrow trail leads through cedars and Douglas firs, and we pass clumps of bear grass, huckleberry bushes, dogtooth violets and carpets of wild strawberry plants...
...reclining that she likes. “There’s no way I’m ever doing that again,” she says, exasperated by the furor over her Bitch cover shot. “But can you imagine anyone ever complaining that like, Joni Mitchell was on the cover of her album? It’s the stupidest thing...
Some faculty members resent the focus on freshmen, accusing the administration of "hand holding." Joni Petschauer, director of freshman learning communities, pleads guilty: "Yes! That's exactly what we're doing. We're extending our hands to them for the first semester. I embrace that...