Word: margarete
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...slow but deep political division between its urban and rural populations. The Tories have always done well in the countryside, but their rural support is cresting. Last year the protests against the ban on foxhunting brought more demonstrators to the streets of London than any since the riots against Margaret Thatcher's attempt to impose a poll tax. The farmers, landowners and rural workers are incensed at what they see, with good reason, as an attack on their way of life...
...identifying issues quickly," says Margaret Dyer Chamberlain, an associate provost at Dartmouth who worked with Bollinger. In addition to taking on administrative duties, Bollinger also taught a popular undergraduate class on the First Amendment...
...June 21, while most of the royals attended a party thrown by Queen Elizabeth II for the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, Princess Anne and Prince Andrew--who in the days and weeks ahead would turn 100, 70, 50 and 40, respectively--Prince William spent his 18th birthday studying for finals at Eton. With his passage into young manhood, Di's son is fair prey for paparazzi...
...moment when books made of paper and ink began sliding into digital obsolescence. But those not yet ready for the brave new reading world can mark 2000 by the extraordinary output of new fiction from big-name veteran authors, all producing energetic work at age 60 or older: Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, Doris Lessing, Joyce Carol Oates, Edna O'Brien, Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, John Updike. The year also brought posthumous books by Joseph Heller and Mario Puzo. The millennium has so far been generous to readers. In with the new! In with...
...BLIND ASSASSIN Margaret Atwood's novel is part family saga, part social history, part suspense tale and altogether captivating. As its elderly narrator, Iris Chase, looks back on her life--and some mysterious deaths--she evokes not only a tangled past but a luminous fictional realm...