Word: karens
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...Summers; former Harvard Corporation member Conrad K. Harper; Harvard history professor Daniel Aaron; British astronomer S. Jocelyn Bell Burnell; philosopher Richard M. Rorty; Celtics star center Bill Russell; gender historian Joan W. Scott; New York Review of Books founding editor Robert B. Silvers; and University of Texas mathematician Karen K. Uhlenbeck. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
...STUDIO KACHAMA: From its austere black façade, you know you're in for something different at Kachama Perez's nearly two-year-old store, tel: (66) 5321 9499. Taking traditional appliqué patches from nearby Hmong, Karen and Yao villages, Perez-who studied textile design in Japan-splices them into her woven creations with colorful beads and shimmering organza. The effect is stunning (as are the prices, with a 5.5-meter wall hanging costing over $9,000). Those on tighter budgets can take solace in the more affordable pillowcases, table runners and scarves...
LONG BEFORE IT WAS COOL TO decry junk food, culinary historian Karen Hess bluntly assessed the state of U.S. cuisine, skewering such sacred cows as Julia Child and James Beard. "Our palates have been ravaged, our food is awful," she wrote in the 1977 book, The Taste of America. "Our most respected authorities ... are poseurs." In later works, Hess pioneered the academic study of food, insisting on primary sources and illuminating Colonial cooking habits in books like Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery, which had remained in the former First Lady's family for generations and was annotated by Hess...
...Karen M. Campbell, SACRAMENTO, CALIF...
...Texas Association Against Sexual Assault also voiced its concerns about "unintended consequences" of Jessica's Laws. The mandatory sentences can backfire, said TAASA spokeswoman Karen Amacher, as prosecutors lose the flexibility to seek lesser sentences in cases where a jury trial may prove too taxing for a child witness, or a jury or judge may not feel a 25-year sentence is warranted. Since an estimated 80% of child sexual assaults are committed by family members, groups like Amacher's are concerned that mandatory sentence laws, not to mention the death penalty, might dissuade certain people from reporting abuse...