Word: ruth
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Virginia governor Jim Gilmore put U.S. justice above foreign policy concerns when he declined to stay the execution last night of Paraguayan national Angel Francisco Breard. Breard died by lethal injection at the Greenville Correctional Center for the 1992 murder and attempted rape of his Arlington neighbor Ruth Dickie...
...placing Rialto in the elite of the elite isn't a stretch: Zagat's guide rates only one Boston restaurant higher; critic diva Ruth Reichl of the New York Times proclaims, "[Rialto] clearly knows what it is doing.... This is the sort of food that makes eating in Boston so exciting"; chef Jody Adams is a winner of the James Beard award for best chef in New England...
...Panelist Ruth Tanner, a chemistry professor at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, discussed other methods of stimulating interest in math and science in middle school girls, through a program she coordinates called Women in Science and Engineering (WISE...
...Ruth R. Wisse, who teaches "Literature and Arts A-48: The Modern Jewish Experience in Literature," once laughed when someone suggested that she devote her career to teaching Yiddish literature...
Ultimately what comes between Ruth and Lisa is a territorial conflict, but the material at stake--personal stories--is invisible. Though Margulies doesn't force the play into a statement of right and wrong, he does communicate the preciousness of stories. Lisa has followed the perennial piece of advice to "write what you know," but Ruth thinks that Lisa has taken this too literally by exploiting the story of her past. Although the rift in their relationship can be contemplated as an ethical dilemma, Margulies makes a stronger argument for the inevitability of literary inheritance. In the end, the play...