Word: mothers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mann is survived by his mother, Ida Mann, ofNewton; and by his children, Lydia of Boston;Naomi of Washington, D.C.; and Aaron, a PeaceCorps volunteer in Burkina Faso...
...success as a writer came quickly. She graduated from Barnard College in 1990 and earned an M.F.A. from Brown three years later. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, a semi-autobiographical tale of a Haitian girl reunited with her mother in the U.S., was published in 1994. The lyrical and haunting short-story collection Krik? Krak! came out the following year. And earlier this year, Danticat won the literary lottery when Oprah Winfrey chose Breath, Eyes, Memory as the June selection for her hugely popular on-air book club. "The call came out of the blue," says Danticat...
...been struck by a machete and left for dead in a pile of corpses tells his story. "'I felt like my woman on our first night together,' he said. 'She woke up in the middle of the night and started screaming...this was her first night outside her mother's bed and she'd plain forgotten where she was... Waking up among the dead, I started screaming... And then I thought of my woman and our first night together, and in spite of the corpses, I smiled...
...husband is fighting a terrible battle with cancer. In June we went with friends to a Buffett concert in Milwaukee, Wis. We danced to Cheeseburger in Paradise and cried to "Mother Ocean." For a few hours, we were able to push away the nightmare. Thank you, Jimmy. EILEEN LUCAS Fontana...
...Reno watchers believe she will soon launch a formal 90-day inquiry into the Democrats' use of issue-advocacy ads to promote the ticket, and the betting inside Justice is that she will ultimately seek an independent counsel. If that happens, officials say, the mother of all IC probes could result, enveloping Clinton and Gore and even Republican standard- bearer Bob Dole, whose campaign also benefited from issue ads like the ones in question. "In the real world," says a senior administration hand, "it comes down to the whole ball of wax. No self-respecting independent counsel is going...