Word: margo
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...gotten out of hand" and said she would drop the subject. As for the pet adoption agency, a Texas woman responding online to a Times of London article on this story (DeGeneres' show is syndicated internationally) got it just right. "Having done animal adoption for over 30 years," Margo Dover of Austin wrote, "I would have said that a compromise was in order. Mutts & Moms [the agency] should have gone and met with the [family DeGeneres had given her dog to], seen if the situation was appropriate and, if it was, collected another adoption fee from the new family. There...
...Finally, a little masterpiece lurks here. It is called 14eme Arrondissement by Alexander Payne (Election, Sideways). It consists of no more than a middle-aged Denver woman (Margo Martindale) wandering around the city and reflecting on its sights and her life in her awkward, self-taught French. There's innocence, honesty, sadness and resolve. There's also a wonderful lack of irony or patronization in Payne's treatment of this story, an artlessness in Martindale's performance that is exemplary. It's the last work in Paris, Je T'Aime and its worth waiting for. It's worth the price...
...Professor of History David Blackbourn, Professor of Astronomy Alyssa A. Goodman, Freed Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88, Physics Department Chair John E. Huth, Environmental Science and Public Policy Chair James J. McCarthy, Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, Smith Professor of Computer Science Margo I. Seltzer, Berkman Professor of Psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke, and Professor of Greek and Latin Richard F. Thomas. Seltzer, Spelke, and Thomas are currently on leave.At the close of yesterday’s Faculty meeting, retiring University Library chief Sidney Verba ’53 discussed Harvard?...
...statistics aren't available on just how many Americans over 50 suffer from anorexia, therapists and rehabilitation centers that specialize in eating disorders report that every year, they're ministering to more middle-aged and older patients, mostly women. The condition strikes people across ethnic and economic lines. Says Margo Maine, a psychotherapist and an eating-disorder specialist based in West Hartford, Conn., and a co-author of The Body Myth: Adult Women and the Pressure to Be Perfect (Wiley; 2005): "Anorexia is an equal-opportunity disease...
...Margo Wootan, nutrition policy director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), says the new Disney policy as well as nutritional standards established at companies like Kraft Foods increases the pressure on their competitors. "Companies are concerned about being blamed for the rising obesity rate in children and concerned about bad P.R. and they're concerned about litigation and about the government coming in to regulate them if they don't regulate themselves," Wootan said...