Word: maidening
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...refused to hear Time Inc.'s appeal, the company turned over files from TIME correspondent Matthew Cooper.) But in a column last week, Novak implied that he may have picked up Plame's name from a book. Once she had been identified as Wilson's wife, Novak wrote, her maiden name could be found "by reading her husband's entry in Who's Who in America." Some had speculated that only certain officials would have known her maiden name, which she had not used in years, thus limiting the field of possible leakers...
...wife may or may not have played in initiating that trip with journalist Robert Novak. The telephone call, according to a New York Times story published last week, had been initiated by Novak, who in the course of his conversation with Rove identified Wilson's wife by her maiden name...
...Burr had gathered together a band of renegades who were attracted by People's you're-the-boss structure. They included a flight scheduler and a personnel manager. The new company issued stock, raising enough cash to buy 17 used 737 jets. Five months later People Express made its maiden flight, from Newark to Buffalo...
...dismay of an older generation of feminists, more and more brides are making the same decision. According to a recent study by Harvard economics professor Claudia Goldin, the number of college-educated brides keeping their birth names ("maiden" being a somewhat unrealistic descriptor) has been falling fast. Goldin drew her data from Massachusetts birth records, New York Times wedding announcements and information kept on Harvard alumnae. For example, 10 years after graduation, 44% of married women in the Harvard class of 1980 had kept their birth names. In the class of 1990, it was just 32%. An informal poll taken...
Room 117 is a Pop Art pastiche of a murder scene. Room 105 has a mock surveillance camera tracking visitors to the bathroom. And Room 409 is a shrine to Swiss maiden Heidi. This is Copenhagen's Hotel Fox, tel: (45) 3313 3000, an establishment that comprises the work of 21 designers from four continents. They were brought together as part of a marketing exercise by Volkswagen, which asked the group to transform the former Park Hotel - a 61-room property in the center of the Danish capital - into a venue for the three-week launch of the automaker...