Word: linda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...announcing Blair's selection, Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson said, "I am honored to award this fellowship to Ann Blair. We often think of ourselves as living in the world's 'information age.' However, Ann's work demonstrates that compiling and organizing important knowledge has been with us for centuries...
Within weeks of these musings, brutal reality set in. In August, Letourneau was taken into custody; in November, she was sentenced to seven years and five months in prison for having sex with Vili. And though Judge Linda Lau initially suspended the sentence, her leniency imposed an impossible condition: Letourneau must not have contact with Vili. In February, Lau learned that police had caught Mary and Vili together. Livid, she reimposed the sentence and sent Letourneau to prison...
That's precisely the problem, says Linda Lacy, developer of an 18,000-acre project in Jefferson County, where wildlife agents set traps last summer seeking jumping mice. They caught no Preble's but did get 218 other mice and one rattlesnake. "It's ridiculous to protect the animal when no one can even seem to find it," says Lacy. Tom Taylor, a Colorado Springs builder, concurs: "What's the population count? Are they really more endangered now than they used to be? Who is to say?" Taylor had to spend four months redesigning a construction project after four Preble...
...many members attend primarily because Krav Maga offers a wallop of a workout. Scott Gutman, a wannabe Krav Maga instructor, trains at the center four hours a day, six days a week and says he has lost 35 lbs. in a month (all the way down to 245). Linda Siegel, 42, a nurse with a black belt in Taekwondo, says she comes for the fast-paced, hard-hitting workouts...
...DIED. LINDA EASTMAN MCCARTNEY, 56, fetching photographer of '60s rockers who trounced the hopes of teenyboppers when she wed one of her dreamiest subjects, Beatle Paul; after battling breast cancer; in Tucson, Ariz. Their enduring union was the rule-proving exception to short-lived celebrity marriages, with the devoted couple spending just one voluntary night apart in their 29 years together. Linda became Paul's muse (the lovely, long-haired lady of his post-Beatles love ballads) and his sometime singing partner in the soft-rock group Wings. Her passions ranged far beyond the musical: she continued to take pictures...