Word: martha
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Fresh off her victory in November, Massachusetts Attorney General-elect Martha Coakley has already begun fattening her campaign coffers again in very public fashion. This despite the fact that Coakley barely spent any money on a campaign that ran uncontested in the Democratic primary and only faced token Republican opposition in the general election...
...year ago, at age 64, with more than 40 years in the record business and a dozen Top 40 hits under her sequined belt, former Motown star Martha Reeves arrived at the moment every professional entertainer dreads. The phone didn't ring as often as before, and the concert bookings were thinning out. So Reeves did the same as millions of people in their 50s and 60s who are facing the end of a career they love: she looked around for a new one that could put to work the skills she had honed in her first. And that...
...also a savvy move that built on her two biggest assets: fame and a familiarity with the city. Her platform was simple to the point of seeming simplistic: cut crime and promote Detroit as a tourist attraction for music. But after four decades as lead singer of Martha and the Vandellas, Reeves knew how to move a crowd. She campaigned almost as easily as she had once made hits like Heat Wave and Dancing in the Streets. And she won her seat...
...children with AIDS, it has been harder for clinics to get and use a common antibiotic to prevent pneumonia and other ills in HIV-positive children who don't yet need ARVs. "One of the biggest obstacles in treating children has been having a consistent guardian," says Dr. Martha Sommers, head of clinical services at Embangweni Hospital, a church-run facility in rural Malawi. "Often the guardian is sick or dying, or the children are orphans and getting passed from one guardian to the next...
...blue banner for the American Constitution Society, the sponsor of Thursday’s moot court, hung behind the judges’ panel, which included Martha L. Minow, the Smith professor of law, and professors from area law schools...