Word: speakes
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...famous novelist's widow, are dubbed Incunks - crazed academics and collectors who want nothing more than to obtain a dead writer's every last piece of prose and memorabilia - their incunabula. A more learned version of Misery's Annie Wilkes ("I'm your number one fan"), the Incunks speak in part to a writer's fear of having their unfinished, unpolished work stripped from their cold, dead hands (metaphorically, of course) and thrust out into the world...
...willingness to talk about her experience, Silber has since performed the same procedure for eight other sets of identical twins. "There are lots of women who are in our position who are not able to have children and who are looking for something," says Yarber. "If we didn't speak about it, there wouldn't have been so many other twins able...
...almost certain that some of the weakest nations in the world will be destroyed by the current economic calamity. It is astonishing that no one in the developed countries has had the courage to speak this truth. That would at least give those countries, likely not to survive, the knowledge that no help is coming. At least, then, they could desperately try find an alternative to outside...
...statistics speak for themselves: according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, in 2006, only 7 percent of people living in households headed by a married individual were poor, while households with an unmarried leader (83 percent of whom were female) boasted poverty rates of 40.3 percent. The authors of the NBER’s June 2006 digest further concluded that changes in household structure—namely, the increase in female-headed families—were largely to blame for the rise in domestic poverty rates since the 1980s. Due to the myths perpetuated...
...events at the club are ludicrously expensive. And as an alumni, I do not find it a useful resource. It was a good place to stage a symbolic protest.” The protesters were denied access to the club and were not allowed to speak to a club representative. The group that organized the demonstration is considering other means through which to further their message. One possibility is a Web site that would aim to convince alumni to withhold donations; another option may be protesting outside of other Harvard clubs in the future. Provost said these ideas were still...