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...waterfront but in the home. Certainly Harbour is more interested in how an industrial dispute can divide a family than in its effect on a country. Having fled his wife Vi (Melissa Jaffer) six years before, Sandy returns to Millers Point to find a changed order: son Matt (Christopher Pitman) is a union reformer who speaks of peaceful assemblies and containment, not pickets and work stoppages; commodity trader daughter Belle (Helen Dallimore) sleeps with one of the men who calls in the dockland dogs...
...plants or fungi? Why no inorganic chemists? There is a persistent notion that the science that most directly applies to humans is intellectually superior to less human-centered endeavors. Your unrepresentative cross section of scientists is symptomatic of society's failure to value all of science. TERRY O'BRIEN Pitman...
...slew of doctoral dissertations, none definitive, have been written on the social adjustment of home schoolers. Mary Anne Pitman, a social anthropologist at the University of Cincinnati, says, "The preponderance of evidence is, they're fine...
...certainly not humility, just a weary roll of the eyes that follows a glance in the mirror? So it seems with Barnes' very funny, very sour new novel, which re-creates England as a theme park on the Isle of Wight. The park is the brainstorm of Sir Jack Pitman, an overweening press lord, and his staff members, one of whom has doubts: "How do we advertise the English...a people widely perceived...as cold, snobbish, emotionally retarded, and xenophobic? As well as perfidious .." No fear; the evil ooze of marketing rules the waves...
...buildings -- homes, churches, libraries, businesses -- destroyed. More than $500 million in damages. By Thursday, the living were starting to sound grateful, to find silver linings. In Oklahoma City, seven-year-old Megan Varva was showing off her new outfit, the first of many replacements to come. Scott Pitman remembered a woman who had let go of the underpass she was clinging to to hand off her young son. She was swept away; the son survived. For Bruce Silsby, an owner of a destroyed surplus store, reality is a simple matter of moving forward. "Yesterday was the shock...