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DEBORAH TANNEN Linguist and author, You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation...
Torres also taught college history, served as a German linguist for the U.S. Army Security Agency and worked as a regional editor for National Geographic Traveler magazine. He and his partner of 13 years, Don Schechter, 60 (a retired former employee of the National Security Agency), together helped raise two daughters from Schechter's marriage. Like many of those who wrote in, Torres doesn't view the issue of gay marriages as a complex philosophical puzzle; to him it's a life-and-death concern: "Now that my partner and I are approaching old age, I don't want...
...formerly the FBI's chief hostage negotiator, who runs a security consulting firm. Without saying who had written them, Swanson turned over typed copies of two of Ted's handwritten letters. She asked Van Zandt to compare them with the manifesto. After studying them with a psychiatrist and a linguist, he found a 60% probability the same man had written both. Van Zandt also passed the material on to two specialists in communication. They put the likelihood at 80% to 90%. The first week of January Swanson brought in Anthony Bisceglie, a Washington attorney, who contacted the FBI. In February...
...Authority are treated by the Israelis like garbage," laments insurance agent Fathi Sirhan. The feeling is widespread that in the negotiations over expanding self-rule, Israel basically dictates the terms. "Every time Arafat meets with the Israelis, it's like he gets his instructions and that's it," says linguist Lily Feidy...
...Schroeder, who pressed for an investigation of Tailhook, says she has been called the "Wicked Bitch of the West" for her trouble. T shirts trumpeting 1,952 Bulldogs and 1 Bitch greeted Shannon Faulkner when she enrolled at the all-male Citadel, where the mascot is a bulldog. Linguist Deborah Tannen, author of Talking from 9 to 5, says, "Bitch is the most contemptible thing you can say about a woman. Save perhaps the four-letter C word...