Word: ruth
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Harvard’s sole victory came in the No. 9 spot, where sophomore Stephanie Hendricks defeated Ruth Kelley...
...closed, a car shop has gone under, and a big grocery chain has decided not to build. But for the locals, it feels a little different this time around. A couple of cupfuls short of patriotism. And urgency. And sense. "There's something unpredictable about this war," says Beeda Ruth Wensil, who runs Saigon Sam's, a huge military-surplus store. "The boys don't know where they're gonna go or what they're gonna do. Iraq or North Korea? They don't even know what to pack...
When she applied to Harvard Law School in 1961, Judith Richards Hope was committing a daring act. The modern feminist movement had yet to begin, and female attorneys such as Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg had been unable to find firms to hire them. But Hope and 14 other pioneering women managed to graduate from Harvard in the class of 1964, as Hope describes in her new book, Pinstripes & Pearls (Scribner...
...long career. His performance as a retired insurance executive is a deeply complex and hilariously tragic portrayal of the most banal aspects of one man’s post-mid-life crisis. Director Alexander Payne, famous for his digressions on suburban angst in films such as Election and Citizen Ruth, keeps the tone light and the characters archetypally and delicously bizarre. About Schmidt screens...
...long career. His performance as a retired insurance executive is a deeply complex and hilariously tragic portrayal of the most banal aspects of one man’s post-mid-life crisis. Director Alexander Payne, famous for his digressions on suburban angst in films such as Election and Citizen Ruth, keeps the tone light and the characters archetypally and delicously bizarre. About Schmidt screens...