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...sleeves are full." The image of a scarlet nun seems appropriate to her role in this strange new society. Once a month, during the Ceremony, Offred has sex with her Commander. She lies between the legs of the Commander's wife, "my head on her stomach, her pubic bone under the base of my skull, her thighs on either side of me." All three participants in this ritual are fully clothed. Offred knows that if a child is conceived and born healthy, not an Unbaby or a "shredder," the wife will raise it. She endures these ordeals as best...
Members of the Anthropology Department--those Riesman, a one-time member of Social Relations, calls the "Non-stone and bone men"--and social psychologists merged with the Sociology Department to form "Soc Rel." The intellectual disciplines which had clashed with the egos, political allegiances and perceived interests of Harvard's well-established departments then had free play...
Robinson's research focusses primarily on themanufacture of blood elements by bone marrow, hesaid. He said he is interested in the bloodabnormalities connected with leukemia and theirpotential therapeutic applications...
...American evacuation of Saigon in 1975. His assignment: to determine whether the campaign justified Washington's growing concern about Marcos' leadership. Stewart followed the President's campaign on the islands of Bohol and Negros in monsoon rains. Hillenbrand, who is based in Bahrain on the Persian Gulf, endured bone-jarring rides on motorcycles and military trucks while keeping up with Aquino and Laurel on campaign stops across the 115,830-sq.-mi. archipelago...
...anonymous citizen found a navy blue sock with what appeared to be a burned bone fragment attached to it at 11:30 a.m. [yesterday] at the high water mark on the beach," said Steven Okes, an Indialantic police communications officer...