Word: miriam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interesting rhythm you get into of receiving awards in high school. Once you get to Harvard, you learn to find reinforcement in other ways," said Miriam Udel...
Adams-according-to-Zencey sees himself accurately as a kind of de-clawed cat in the matter of Lizzie Cameron, but when he meets the beautiful Miriam Talbott, a young art student, and accompanies her to Chartres, it seems that a more robust interest may develop. He persuades himself that she resembles his dead wife Clover, who committed suicide seven years before...
...when he tries to pursue his fascination back in Paris, Miriam is at first reported to have been murdered, and then to have disappeared into the coils of a vast financial and political scandal. This involves the murder of the Baron Jacques de Reinach, an officer of the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocaanique, whose Panama Canal project had failed in a miasma of debt and thousands of yellow fever deaths. Fully half of the French Chamber of Deputies had accepted bribes in the form of checks, which they had foolishly signed. They became known to delighted journalists as "chequards...
Schindler's List Is Not Shoah: Bilderverbot, Popular Modernism and Public Memory. Miriam Hansen, University of Chicago, Carpenter Center, RoomB...
Prop. 187 would also require teachers and other public officials to report suspected illegal immigrants to authorities. "People who just happen to look like they're from a different ethnic background will probably be stopped on the street and questioned," said Miriam T. Burgos '98, who is from California. Recent state polls have indicated that the vote on Prop. 187 is too close to call...