Word: sylvia
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Senseless death seems to have become a recurring theme around the Ivy League. Only a couple of days after Yale pharmacology student Annie Le's body was found on the day she was supposed to get married, Sylvia Bingham, a recent Yale graduate who was passionate about social justice, died in a bike accident in Cleveland. As evidenced by the string of quotes that the Yale Daily News threw together, their reporting attention was still focused on Le. Warren Schor, a 20-year-old Cornell junior, also recently died of swine...
...Cider House Rules” to “Monster.” Arriaga conceived of the movie with Theron in mind, and told Vogue’s Kevin Conley that he did so because “she can act to silence.” Theron plays Sylvia, whose physical and emotional scars are the keystone to a multigenerational arc of love, betrayal, and loss. As in “Babel,” this arc spans multiple countries as well, straddling the border between Texas and Mexico and leaping up to the coal-gray coast of Oregon...
...this is bad news for business magazines. But it doesn't necessarily mean business journalism is in trouble, says Sylvia Nasar, an economist and former Fortune writer who teaches at Columbia University's J-school. There's more demand for it than ever, and more outlets providing it - also part of Business Week's problem. "This [economic crisis] is a great story," she notes. "There is - and will be - more great journalism on it." (See the most endangered newspapers in America...
...through in Harlem, the solidly Democratic capital of black America. GOP strategists had figured a visit there might demonstrate the kind of tolerance and inclusion necessary to nail down moderate swing votes in white suburbs. But while that was the reason everyone else gave for the unusual stop at Sylvia's soul food café, it was not the reason for Kemp, who believed wholeheartedly that Republicans could and had to win over blacks. "For Jack, it wasn't a political tactic," recalled his campaign manager, Wayne Berman, who accompanied Kemp that fall to inner-city communities from South Central...
...Neither ever waded into a black crowd, like Sylvia's, or had the easy familiarity with blacks that Kemp displayed that day, getting laughs by referring to a local pastor as "Rev" and teasing a woman who had interrupted him, saying, "Hey, girl, it's my microphone...