Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children in one of the few Italian immigrant families in Littlehampton, Sussex (a fading Victorian beach resort her family dubbed "home of the newly wed and nearly dead"), she was treated like an alien by her classmates. "They never smelled garlic before we came," says Roddick. Her stepfather, who ran the first and only American-style diner in town, died when she was 10 -- a loss that was keener for Anita and her younger brother Bruno than they knew. Eight years later, their mother Gilda confessed the truth: the man they called stepfather was actually their father. Locked...
...another year in Geneva working for the United Nations, and then hit what she calls the hippie trail. She boarded a boat for Tahiti, passed through New Hebrides and New Caledonia on her way to Australia, and ended up in Johannesburg (by way of Madagascar and Mauritius). There she ran afoul of the laws of apartheid by going to a jazz club on a "black night" and was packed off to England by the South African police...
...Bill Clinton, Jerry Brown and Pat Buchanan to actress Katharine Hepburn and comic Billy Crystal. "The challenge is to find the politics in Billy Crystal and the humor in Bill Clinton," she says. Her most recent subject was the relationship between Bill and Hillary Clinton, in an article that ran in the Man of the Year issue...
...then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom. This piece first ran on June...
Costin-Scalise trailed off with nothing else to say. Nothing else needed to be said. Clearly, she wasn't planning to lose much sleep over this one. And with reason. While Yale clearly relished its victory (one swimmer ran all the way out to the public phone by the front door to call home with the exciting news), Harvard shrugged off the loss as a speedbump on the highway of its success...