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...small scale, the dream of discovery slowly came true this fall for Nora H. Zimmett '00. Zimmett, a Mather House resident, recently appeared as Tinkerbell in the American Repertory Theater (ART) production of "Peter Pan and Wendy," which ran from December 12 to January...
...initiative arose from an unusual alliance between two environmental organizations, the Natural Resources Defense Council and SeaWeb, and some of the nation's finest chefs, led by Nora Pouillon, owner of the Nora and Asia Nora restaurants in Washington. At least 25 chefs of top-rated eateries along the Atlantic Seaboard from Maine to Texas have pledged not to serve swordfish this year, and some will print information about the campaign on menus. That way diners will learn that swordfish populations are under pressure everywhere and severely depleted in the Atlantic. "As chefs, we are high-profile people," says Robert...
Romance writer Nora Roberts should be flattered that rival author Janet Dailey thought Roberts was so creative and talented that her words were worth copying [PEOPLE, Aug. 11]. In fact, maybe Dailey's plagiarizing of Roberts' phrases and ideas was a worthwhile endeavor. Edgar Allan Poe starts The Fall of the House of Usher with "During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens..." Tell me, what author could help making that type of writing part of his or her own work? Of course...
...America convention when it emerged that one of the genre's most prolific and popular writers was a plagiarist. JANET DAILEY, right, who has written 93 novels, has 200 million books in print and even has an award named after her, has admitted lifting excerpts from the work of NORA ROBERTS (125 novels, 30 million in print). A fan happened to read Notorious by Dailey and Sweet Revenge by Roberts back to back and posted strikingly similar passages on the Internet. ("Like a rocket, the heat tore up her arm," in one; "Like a rocket, the heat tore down...
...legs amputated because of vascular disease caused by cigarette addiction. Many of these veterans told me their first cigarettes were courtesy of the military while they were in the service. How ironic that war did not maim or kill these men but that cigarettes did and will. NORA MARTIN VETTO Phoenix, Ariz...