Word: margarete
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...myself felt injured by the narrative,” Randall said. “My book was the equivalent of Prissy slapping Scarlett.”Writing the parody was a way for her—and for her readers—to cope with the trauma of reading Margaret Mitchell’s book and watching the movie it spawned. Randall explores the abandonment a black girl feels when her biological mother takes care of a white girl.“Mammy was my Mama. Even though she let me go, I miss her,” Randall writes...
...roommate, Reginald E. Greene ’56 remembers Daniloff as serious, cordial, and courtly. “He is like Ashley in ‘Gone With the Wind.’ He looks a little like him. He behaves like him,” Greene says. Unlike Margaret Mitchell’s characters, Daniloff describes himself as particularly un-romantic. “I am not a nostalgic.” “Harvard is a part of my life. I contribute to Harvard, but I give directed contributions,” Daniloff says.He will...
Late Thursday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and top diplomats from the UK, France, Germany, the EU, Russia and China met in Vienna for eight and a half hours and emerged with what British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett hailed as? "a set of far reaching proposals" aimed at resolving the confrontation with Iran over its nuclear program...
...revelations almost every day about questionable conduct and incompetence among the President's staff and appointees. Let's hope they never again have the guts to lecture us on patriotism, character, integrity or family values. At a time when the world needs leaders, that crowd has disgraced public service. Margaret Ray Pearisburg, Virginia...
...This change is one in a series of moves over the last year by Education Secretary Margaret Spellings intended to placate critics of NCLB, the education law passed in 2002 that requires states to test their students in math and reading in grades three through eight, and once more in high school. The law requires states to make lists of schools that score badly on state tests and allows students to transfer out of the worst schools. While the law passed with overwhelming majorities in Congress, many school superintendents, principals and teachers - as well as politicians - from across the country...