Word: penned
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Like his predecessors, he's at the President's elbow with a Sharpie pen for autographs. But sharing Bush's love for streamlined systems, he also developed a faster thank-you-note process. Gottesman collects artifacts for a future presidential library, down to the whistles Bush blows to start the White House Easter Egg Roll. Since it's hard for the President to receive mail, Gottesman takes to work the catalogs he receives at home so that when the two have downtime on Air Force One, the President can choose running shoes and fishing gear, which Gottesman then orders online...
...tucked away on the mall on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston—the Boston Women’s Memorial. Unlike the John Harvard statue, the Women’s Memorial portrays our cultural heroes as accessible: when you visit the site, you can see that each woman holds a pen, frozen in the act of writing something down. When you pass the John Harvard statue, by contrast, all you can really see is the polished toe of his shoe because he sits far above us, looking downThe Memorial displays three famous women leaders—Abigail Adams, Phillis Wheatley...
...Harvard as a freshman. She considers the girl her finest piece of work.Randall has plenty else to brag about, from her controversial parody of the Reconstruction classic “Gone With The Wind” to a country song that made her the only African-American woman to pen a chart-topper. But even in these creative efforts, she examines motherhood and what it means to be a daughter.Randall will deliver the Radcliffe Day speech Friday morning in Memorial Church. Friends praise her for her “effervescent” personality, which has made her a leader...
...they inspired not only each other but all of us who were lucky enough to be in the vicinity.” Scott says that she and Barnett had planned two more books in the “Point” series, which Scott will write once she can pen Barnett’s characters with a “lighter hand.”STRING THEORYFor Scott, writing is but one of her many passions. Scott was once part of a band, now broken up. She calls her group a “sub-basement band” since...
...rate of about 12,000 a day. You don't generate that kind of following by responding to rhetorical excess with equanimity and reason. You get that kind of following by responding to rhetorical excess with more rhetorical excess. Or, as Moulitsas puts it later, "You can't take pen into a battle with someone who's wielding a machine...