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...plans to have children early meant deciding to become a teacher rather than a doctor. "I'd be 30 before I was finished with medical school," she says. (She ended up leaving teaching with the birth of her second child.) Former fashion designer Daisy von Furth, 33, of Northampton, Mass., dropped her X-Girl clothing line after having her son Wolfie when she was 26. Von Furth is enjoying stay-at-home motherhood but says going back into the fashion business probably wouldn't be an option, even if she wanted to. "You've jumped off the career train...
Patrick Quinn, professor of English Literature at the University of Northampton, believes that Sept. 11 will turn out to be part of a continuum stretching back to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914. "If you think of World War I, World War II, Vietnam and now this, historically they are part of the same problem. The world we live in is chaos. All the art since 1914, starting with futurism and then working its way through modernism and post-modernism, is all a matter of wanting to have some control over the world we live...
...many ways, the horrific scale of Sept. 11 challenged our ability to put into words what happened. Language failed us that day, says Patrick Quinn, a professor at the University of Northampton: "When they talked to the firemen and witnesses, they had a vocabulary of 30 words. They would say it was 'terrible' and 'shocking' and then there would be these long pauses and then they would come back and say the same thing again...
...Highampton, sheep passed the disease to cattle; some of the sheep were then sent to a slaughterhouse about 170 km east, while others were bought by a farm in Herefordshire, some 200 km north, causing one more outbreak. Still another batch went 300 km northeast to a market in Northampton. Cleave packed a shipment of 348 sheep off to the British Channel port of Dover, where they were carried to Germany on a livestock ferry...
...What Harvard is asking in this case is extraordinary," said William C. Newman, an attorney in Northampton, Mass. with extensive appellate court experience. "Interlocutory appeals are generally disfavored...