Word: lisa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Afterwards looms the Yale game, unequivocally the biggest test before the Howe Cup tournament. And with Saturday’s loss, and with the Bulldogs barely escaping with a 5-4 win over Trinity in January, the national title contest has gotten pretty interesting. —Staff writer Lisa J. Kennelly can be reached at kennell@fas.harvard.edu...
Evidently, this whole story is as ambiguous as Federico Fellini’s “8½” or the nature of the Mona Lisa “smile.” Iran moves from chapter to chapter, with clever rhetoric, cash-fluent promises, and hideous lies. Teheran is an actor playing on the edge in a genre as sensitive as nuclear proliferation. Hopefully, none of the protagonists will end this play with a bloody catharsis on a stage famous for endless crimson-blemished sands...
...Performance of the Week Just four years ago, no Chinese women ranked among the world's top 100 tennis players. But following a women's doubles gold in the 2004 Olympics, they're headed for center court. Last week, in a tough match against Australian Samantha Stosur and American Lisa Raymond, China's YAN ZI and ZHENG JIE survived two match points to win the Australian Open women's doubles final-and claim China's first-ever Grand Slam title...
...waiting list last fall, and her parents are buoyed by the hope that they have finally located someone who understands their perplexing daughter--even if they have to wait another year or more for help. "Her preschool teachers ignored the situation and just thought she was timid," recalls Lisa. When Abby was 3, a well-meaning speech therapist taught her sign language, but her fear of speaking in public didn't go away. Friends tried to make Lisa feel better, telling her that Einstein didn't talk until he was 7, but she still felt helpless and so guilt-ridden...
...Lisa feels even worse about the emotional agony her daughter must go through every day. "When someone outside her immediate family compliments her on her pretty dress, she looks at the ground and clenches her fists," says Lisa. And because Abby couldn't tell her teachers that she had to go to the bathroom, she used to be very worried about having accidents at school...