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Florence C. Ladd, director of Radcliffe's Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, after a long and accomplished career in academia, has just begun a new phase of her life-- as a published novelist, with the work Sarah's Psalm. This remarkable 64-year-old woman began writing ten years ago fueled by the frustration that she had not been able to find herself in American literature. Her ten years of writing have soothed the frustration and resulted in a work that is tightly bound to her own life experience in what Ladd describes as a "geo-biographical" novel that tells...
Barbara J. Nelson will step down from her post to assume a deanship at the University of California at Los Angeles on November 1, according to Florence C. Ladd, director of the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute...
That was too much for Ingraham and Lefkowitz. Guests at the Doral received a pointed set of rules aimed at Renaissance's p.c. caste. No. 1 was "No group hugs." Nos. 6 and 7 encouraged the wearing of furs and the use of chlorofluorocarbon sprays. Some arrivals could not take the puckish hint that this was a time for public-policy grinds to blow off steam, but others fell right into the outlaw spirit. "I always smoked when I was pregnant," announced G. Gordon Liddy's wife to a companion. A batch of half-looped Young Turks...
...their party affiliation. On Saturday morning, the Dark Ages carousers filed into Arianna Huffington's seminar on "Life After the Welfare State: What Replaces It?" When one participant declared, "Cutting government is the ultimate act of compassion," others sensitively asserted the need for "faith-based charity," at which point Ingraham was so moved she broke her own empathy ban: "It really choked me up," she said. "It's the first time I've seen conservatives really talking about that issue...
Lovely. But when the overachievers return to Washington, a spirit more in keeping with Dark Ages rule No. 2 will once again apply: When your opponents are losing at tennis or golf, please refrain from saying "Nice try" or "Good effort." Explained Ingraham: "Winning really is everything...