Word: portering
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...said the Kennedy School has numerous Republican faculty members, including Executive Dean Sheila Burke, the former chief of staff for Bob Dole, and IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter, a domestic policy adviser under President George Bush...
...Foodstuffs, third, which might just as easily be purchased at neighboring convenience stores with more of a selection. Or maybe a short T-ride or long walk to the Porter Square Star Market might be appropriate for students who want to buy food in bulk at decent prices...
...then we're off. We are taken on a worldwind tour of Jackie's life, from Bouvier bickering at Hammersmith Farm to living the beautiful life in New York City to "learning" at Miss Porter's School, where the schoolgirls are played by men in drag. The most hysterical stop along the way is the scene set at the Kennedy home on "the merry old land of Cod," where Joe Kennedy sizes up Jackie as a potential presidential wife. The Kennedy clan is painted in broad strokes as an obnoxious group of loudmouthed, thick-waisted jocks speaking with an accent...
When asked about her influences McCorkle expressed her admiration of many Southern writers. Favorites included Truman Capote, Katherine Anne Porter and John Updike. After this list of people, McCorkle exclaimed, "Then I realized I live next door to all these people." McCorkle was raised in Lumberton, North Carolina and graduated from University of North Carolina. She now lives in Cambridge and teaches Creative Writing at Harvard while simultaneously raising a family...
DIED. RICHARD PORTER, 83, electrical engineer who helped lead America into space; on a train traveling from Washington to New York City. Porter oversaw the first U.S. satellite launch in 1958, a project that had its seeds in a perilous 1945 trip he made to Germany to recruit pioneering rocket scientists including Wernher von Braun...