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...worked, when he worked, as a promoter for a carnival performer called the Great Pasha, whose specialty was being buried alive. His mother was a small-town Alabama beauty named Lillie Mae Faulk, who eventually chucked the shiftless Arch, headed for New York City and changed her name to Nina because it sounded more sophisticated. Little Truman was parked for much of his childhood in a Southern-gothic household of eccentric cousins in Monroeville, Ala. But Clarke stresses that his most agonizing early memory was of being locked in a hotel room by his mother when she went...
...relaxes the muscles and suppresses the appetite for carbohydrates. Since nicotine cannot be stored in the body, smokers maintain a relatively constant level in the blood by continuing to smoke. "Because you take 200 to 400 of these hits a day, there's a lot of reinforcement," says Nina Schneider, a psychopharmacologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. "It's self-administered, and it controls mood and performance. That's what makes it so powerfully addicting...
...bright, witty, and socially conscious, and he speaks with cynicism to the problems of the '80s," said Nina R. Schwalbe '88, the chairman of the Class Day Speaker Committee...
Bucknell's top players are their tri-captains, two-meter players Sheilagh Vale and Nina Troglio and driver Julie MacDougall. All three were named to the All-East squad, and Vale was named an All-American in last year's Nationals...
Anna V.E. Forrester '88-'89 was one of the delegates. The other undergraduates on the trip were Nicholas B. Basden '89, Priya Bhatia '90, Saria Brachman '88-'89, Anjen Chen '90, Jennifer M. Choo '89, Jeffrey Clarke '89, Vanessa D. Lann '90, Joannie M. Schrof '88, Nina R. Schwalbe '88-'89 and Benjamin Waldman '89. The graduate students were Allison Stranger and Steve Solnick, and Assistant Professor of History Mark D. Steinberg...