Word: margarete
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...good thing to viewing people as corpulent or obese, which is a bad thing,” Shapin said. Fat studies has emerged as a small but growing interdisciplinary field in universities across the country, The New York Times reported last month. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, professor Margaret Carlisle Duncan, for example, offers a class on “The Social Construction of Obesity.” And Sondra Solovay, an adjunct faculty member at the New College of California School of Law who authored “Tipping the Scales of Justice,” discusses weight discrimination...
...this momentous event came about is the subject of Margaret MacMillan's fascinating book Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao. She begins with the historic encounter itself-a meeting on Feb. 21, 1972, that the American delegation was not sure would actually take place. Yet as Nixon was going over his briefing books and practicing how to use chopsticks en route to Beijing, the seriously ill Mao was getting his first shave and haircut in months. As soon as Air Force One landed and Nixon greeted Premier Zhou Enlai with a prolonged handshake, Mao ordered Zhou to bring...
...book's title comes from one of Mao's poems, which Nixon quoted in his banquet toast on the day he met the Chairman: "Time passes. Ten thousand years are too long. Seize the day, seize the hour." With intelligence and verve, Margaret MacMillan has seized the true spirit and significance of "Nixon in China...
IVAN GASKELL, Senior Lecturer on History and Margaret S. Winthrop Curator of Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts in the Harvard University Art Museums...
...Kohl was yet one more politician who wanted to leave his mark on history, at the cost of neglecting the country's failing health-care system and the problems of unemployment. Cheryl Bartlett-Büttner Niedersachsen, Germany The admiration that Czech president Vaclav Klaus' article showed for Margaret Thatcher's belief in human freedom made me snigger. I've chosen, however, to forgive him for the narrowness of his insight. Obviously, Thatcher's unswerving belief in human freedom did not extend to the repressed and disenfranchised blacks of South Africa when she refused to support sanctions against the apartheid...