Word: margarete
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...directed to the jury pool room, where I sat with a couple dozen other people, most of them elderly. We watched television for a while, and then a movie about being a juror, which had poor production values and featured Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret Marshall. Then we watched television for another hour, my fellow jurors cackling disturbingly at Regis and Kelly’s repartee, before the judge came in and told us that since both cases on the docket had been settled, we might go home. I hadn’t made a single impassioned speech...
...factor, surely, was a clarity of vision. In Central and Eastern Europe in the 1980s, the most popular Western politicians were those like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher who didn't pussyfoot around but called the communist tyranny what it was. Michael Mandelbaum, author of a new book The Ideas That Conquered the World, argues, however, that Reagan's importance to the transformation of Europe came less from what he said than from what he stood for - the West's evident freedom and prosperity. "It was the power of example that made the difference," Mandelbaum says. "People believed what they...
...waiting for an hour"). And visitors will find the stories of Manhattan sex scandals good reading in a tabloidy, microfiche kind of way, but the exhibit can get awfully soporific, considering that it's about sex in New York City. There's a cover from a sixth edition of Margaret Sanger's Family Limitation and a display of Wonder Woman comic books under the rubric of lesbian pornography, which is particularly lame when you consider that someone could have gone to Times Square and got some better examples of girl-on-girl action. Curators can be so lazy...
Sophomore Alexis Martire led Margaret Purcell 6-4, 4-1, while senior Sanja Bajin trailed Biffy Kaufman 5-6 (4), 6-2 and Cao Minh trailed Stephanie White...
...addition to his wife, Malt is survived by his mother, Ruth of St. Louis; his son, Bradford of Boston; his two daughters, Barbara of Allentown, Pa. and Margaret of Cambridge; and two grandsons...