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...course, village life means accommodating bad neighbors along with the good. When Ruttledge and Kate are called upon by John Quinn, the local womanizer always looking for chances to “get into the boggy hollow,” they are obliged to welcome him just as they would their best friends. The villagers’wry, patient sense of humor makes such a mix of people endurable; gossip makes them interesting. Jamesie is guilessly fascinated by the details of other people’s lives. But his wife recognizes that the importance of knowing other people runs...

Author: By Lindsey E. Mccormack, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Languorous, Lakeside Tale | 3/8/2002 | See Source »

...With reporting by Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why U.S. Arrival in Georgia Has Moscow Hopping Mad | 2/27/2002 | See Source »

...Weatherhead Professor of Business Administration D. Quinn Mills and made up of faculty and administrators, the committee refused to address the question of pay hikes, instead suggesting increased health benefits and worker training in place of a wage floor such as the one proposed by PSLM...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Committee Urges Harvard Pay Raises | 1/4/2002 | See Source »

...Weatherhead Professor of Business Administration D. Quinn Mills and made up of faculty and administrators, the committee refused to address the question of pay hikes, instead suggesting increased health benefits and worker training in place of a wage floor such as the one proposed by PSLM...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wage Committee Urges Pay Hikes for Harvard Workers | 12/19/2001 | See Source »

...many ways, the horrific scale of Sept. 11 challenged our ability to put into words what happened. Language failed us that day, says Patrick Quinn, a professor at the University of Northampton: "When they talked to the firemen and witnesses, they had a vocabulary of 30 words. They would say it was 'terrible' and 'shocking' and then there would be these long pauses and then they would come back and say the same thing again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding the Right Words | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

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