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...DIED. BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON, 67, author of the much lauded 1978 book Visions of Glory, a nuanced account of the 12 years she spent as a Jehovah's Witness; of pulmonary disease; in New York City. Converted at 9 by her mother, Harrison moved into the Brooklyn, N.Y., headquarters of the organization at 19; after three years she renounced it. Harrison, who wrote for Ms. and other magazines, presented the faith as racist and sexist--but with members who were often humanitarian and kind...
...back of the test, expressing her feelings. . . creatively, if you will. That's what she was told to do by her parents, who are understandably miffed about the whole incident. "We've always told her that you can't take your feelings out on your teacher," says Barbara Johnson, Becca's mom, "so write about it or draw it, as a catharsis...
...undergraduate changed her concentration to Visual and Environmental Studies as a result of her work with Barbara Hammer, a documentary filmmaker who is also a fellow this year...
...part a result of uncommonly meager unemployment benefits: "Once you enter the market there is pressure to keep your position because there's nothing on the other side." Still, while the labor movement continues to command high public support, changes in the workplace are already well under way. Barbara Cavuto, who works in one of Italy's relatively few temporary employment agencies, says business has tripled since her company opened in 1998, a year after such operations were legalized. Older people who come in looking for work tend to resent the arrangement. "Most young people accept it though," she says...
...according to traditional expectations. It was, as her father would say, constructive revenge: she made Omar Khatib realize his mistake and acknowledge the humanity of his would-be victim. Omar is still in jail, but has begun corresponding with Laura’s father and, in an interview with Barbara Walters for ABC, freely acknowledged that Laura had made him see the error of his ways...