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...WELL, I WISH IT WERE A MORE dramatic story..." So begins Professor of History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in describing the discovery of the diary that led to her Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Midwife's Tale. On the contrary, her fifteen-year journey from the discovery of eighteenth-century midwife Martha Ballard's diary to the Boston premiere of Laurie Kahn-Leavitt's film production of her story, is a tale in itself...
Kahn-Leavitt saw all the suggestive possibilities of the "seemingly opaque and meaningless" passages of Martha's diary. "Laurel pieced it together and made it all begin to fit in, and I wanted to create the same experience on film...
Named after 1950s supermodel Suzy Parker, Posey grew up in Laurel, Mississippi; her dad owns a Chevrolet-Nissan dealership there. While in the theater program at the State University of New York College at Purchase, she won a regular role on the CBS soap As the World Turns...
...Girl Scouts of Mount Laurel, New Jersey, are working on a new badge: "hard bargaining." Smack in the middle of the cookie-selling season, 27 area troops demanded a bigger commission from the South Jersey Pines council, which oversees Mount Laurel and six other area troops. When HQ rejected their request, the troops retaliated with a slowdown, vowing to peddle only the 12-box minimum. "This is the first I've heard of anything like this," says Marianne Ilaw, spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts of America, which has been selling cookies annually for 69 years...
...Mount Laurel scouts contend that of the final cookie cut, they're getting only crumbs. Last year the 400 scouts sold $111,000 worth of cookies (up to 100 boxes each). The troops' take: $15,000, or 40[cents] a box. But the baker got $30,000, and the Pines council got $66,000, which goes toward services and programs. This year the troops asked for 60[cents], with a guarantee to sell an average 110 boxes a scout. The council countered with 45[cents], throwing in incentives like patches, or 50[cents] without the extras. No deal. Looks like...