Word: maryann
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...just how well Carver knew the worlds he wrote about. He grew up mostly in blue collar Yakima, Wash., where his father worked in a sawmill, changed jobs frequently and drank heavily, patterns he passed on to his son. Carver was barely 18 when he married 16-year-old Maryann Burk, but he had already dedicated himself to life as a writer...
...what that would turn out to mean was a life of struggle. For years, the couple moved constantly, taking whatever jobs they could find while trying to cobble together degrees at one school after another. In Sklenicka's book, Maryann emerges as an admirable if flawed anchor in her husband's life. Companion, breadwinner, fierce believer in Carver's genius, she was also a classic enabler who sank into alcoholism just as he did, though he sank deeper. Over the years, Carver and Maryann, with their two wary children in tow, would suffer just about every indignity that drunkenness confers...
Cambridge public schools that failed to achieve the targets of No Child Left Behind could still be making progress, district officials said at a presentation to the city’s school committee last night. Maryann MacDonald, the executive director of student achievement and accountability, and superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn, discussed the district’s results on the MCAS, the state’s standardized tests, highlighting both areas of improvement and places that need more work. The aggregate scores showed that in many tests, public schools in Cambridge do not do as well as those in the state...
...after she was born, Daniels was 3 when she became one of the first 70 children in the U.S. to test a protease inhibitor. Even in the brief span of her lifetime, Daniels has watched pediatric-AIDS treatments improve significantly. When she was an infant, her adoptive mother Maryann had to wake her up at 4 a.m. to administer the first of four daily doses. Today the blond, blue-eyed girl, who looks like any active Midwestern teenager, has to take her medications only once a day. "Most of the time, I don't even realize I have...
...jump in female players. At EmpirePoker.com women have gone from 3% of players three years ago to 20% today. InterPoker.com reports that 10% of players a year ago were women. Today that number is at least 25%. "Women are the fastest-growing demographic of new players," says Maryann Morrison, publisher of the fledgling Woman Poker Player magazine and founder of the Women's Poker Club, a women-only site. Morrison estimates that about 35% of online players are now female, in part because of the rapid rise of all-female sites. Testifying to that hot new market are a slew...