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...first time around, Mitchard was a virtual unknown: a Madison, Wis., newspaper columnist and a widowed mother of five. Then she got what has come to be known, for a select group including Toni Morrison, Alice Hoffman and, most recently, Edwidge Danticat, as "the call." Says Mitchard, laughing: "It fell under the category of 'Who knew?' I was dumbfounded, honest to gosh." On her follow-up book, the hard part was to exorcise all notions of trying to duplicate the previous success. "The temptation is to just write something like, 'He had a hairy chest, she had big breasts...
...Houses select graduate students who are inthe midst of high powered careers or in the midstof establishing high-powered careers," Rubin says...
...mail message sent to student leaders,Kovacevich, who is also the UAC co-chair, said thecouncil felt the fairest policy was "to select across-sampling of groups that tend to representextracurricular `niches' on campus." Many ethnicgroups already host their own receptions and wouldbe represented in a panel discussion of minoritygroups, Kovacevich added...
Dubbing itself an "improvisational grille," the establishment encourages patrons to personally select the items which will be incorporated into their meals...
...Capuano's opinion, this system makesSomerville more political because voters mustspecifically select one candidate and are forcedto separate themselves into distinct camps,polarizing the political system...