Word: miche
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...result of cost. Suggesting that borrowing to live is the cause of the Wall Street collapse when the 400 richest people in the U.S. have as much money as several million average citizens shows ignorance of the greed and avarice controlling this country. Paul A. Heller, Washington, Mich...
...true that you're named after your father's favorite actor, John Wayne? Terry Ramsdell, Ann Arbor, Mich. He was interested in finding a word that sounded like Wayne. He found a word, ying, which means the bud of a tree. But that word, as a name, is quite feminine. So because he wanted to name me after John Wayne, he ended up with a very feminine name...
...What film directors have inspired your work? Alan Eggleston, Grand Rapids, Mich. Thousand Years was very much influenced by a Japanese director called [Yasujiro] Ozu. Princess of Nebraska is a tribute to the French New Wave - to directors like Jean-Luc Godard...
...justify advocating animal rights in a world filled with poverty and starvation? Joslyn DeGroot YPSILANTI, MICH...
Instead of working out who owns what, lawyers and mediators are trying to figure out the fiendishly trickier conundrum of who owes what. "We're negotiating debts--not assets," says Henry Gornbein, a family-law attorney in Oakland County, Mich. "Two, three years ago, I'd be telling you that houses had equity, and you'd either be doing a buying out or selling the house and splitting whatever the proceeds were. Now it's the reverse. You go into court; the judges just don't know what...