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...three singers strive to connect themselves to old, grand traditions. They use Celtic imagery, and Keineg sings one song, the stately O Iesu Mawr, in Gaelic; O'Connor quotes William Butler Yeats on the liner notes of her CD, and O'Riordan pays him tribute in the song Yeats' Grave. This awareness of a particular past helps distinguish their songs from the typical rootless algae of pop music. In his poem A Coat, Yeats wrote, "I made my song a coat/ Covered with embroideries/ Out of old mythologies/ From heel to throat." As modern women conscious of an Irish heritage...
...featured on the cover of the August issue of Philadelphia magazine, holding, in the words of writer Duane Swierczynski, "another hot young thing"--a baby lion cub. She appeared at a suburban Barnes and Noble to meet the masses and was almost mauled by a group of angry Bryn Mawr women. They were, by the end, suitably impressed by her wit and sharp mind, according to Nancy Zimbelli, director of promotions for the store. "She's a smart cookie," Zimbelli raved...
Maynard transferred from Bryn Mawr in 1942. Bythe time she arrived on campus, she says, the menwere nearly gone...
...purchased in Portland, Oregon, have been used. "They don't address any significant long-term needs of the recipients, and there is no way of knowing, in the short-term, if people actually consume less alcohol or fewer drugs," says Jim Baumohl, a professor of social work at Bryn Mawr College. "The energy that goes into these programs distracts us from developing meaningful policies to deal with poverty and homelessness...
...televised symposium on entitlements in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Clinton argued against making further cuts in Medicare and Medicaid to reduce the deficit, saying health-care reform would do a better and fairer job of reducing the cost of government health programs...