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...explaining to do as she campaigns for a parliamentary seat in Pakistan. The 61-year-old, two-time member of the National Assembly is a veteran of the country's rough-and-tumble politics: she has switched political parties four times. That has helped earn her the derogatory epithet lota, the round-bottomed (and thus wobbly) pitchers used in Pakistani bathrooms. But this time around, Hussain has a powerful ally: the ghost of Benazir Bhutto, the popular former Prime Minister who was assassinated on December...
...significant event in our poetry, it’s part of a continuing alteration in the scale of American life.” Born in Worcester, Mass., Bishop was also a resident of Key West, New York, Boston, and Brazil, where she lived for 16 years with her partner Lota de Macedo Soares. Bishop’s life was one plagued with tragedy: her father died before her birth, a boyfriend committed suicide leaving her with a postcard, “Go to hell, Elizabeth,” and de Macedo Soares died by overdose. A close friend of confessional...
...Beta Kappa lota Chapter of Massachusetts has elected 24 Radcliffe seniors to its midst, Radcliffe officials announced last week...
Selection for Radcliffe's lot a chapter are done similarly, but it has a higher final acceptance rate, 15 percent, than its male counterpart. Sasan Bush '55, chairman of lota's Committee on Undergraduate. Eligibility said yesterday. Bush added that she found a "small trend towards more Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappas moving towards the science...
Elected to the lota Chapter of Phi Betta Kappa were Janet B. Abrams, Joanne Cohn, Elizabeth Dobell, Noel M. Holbrook, Nancy E. Mills, Sophie I. Pirie, Amy G. Remensnyder, and Wendy A. Weiger. Elected to the Alpha Chapter were Jeremy J. Benstein, Paul A. Engelmayer, Michael J. Folz, Christopher Forman, Wesley R. Gardenswartz, James T. Hamilton, Marco Iansiti, Jeffrey W. Knopf, Frank S. Lee, Timothy W. McGuire, Bruce Tidor, and Christopher S. Wood All are juniors...