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Most women when they're pregnant don't announce the impending blessed event by saying, "Yes, I'm pregnant. I couldn't be happier. But no, I'm not going to discuss the father, the method or anything of that nature." But that's how JODIE FOSTER, 35, announced her upcoming motherhood to columnist Liz Smith. The baby is due in September; Foster will meanwhile keep busy as a producer; her company, Egg Pictures, is currently incubating three pictures...
Well, sort of. In that era, TIME did use the term floater to designate a sort of utility infielder who moved from section to section as a replacement writer. The magazine was still rigidly divided into such sections as Education or Sport or Press--a method of organizing the week's news that Briton Hadden and Henry Luce had invented roughly 40 years before. In the jacket copy of my novel, I'd acknowledged that I was the newsmagazine floater referred to as having tried "to escape an overlong stay in the Religion section by writing 'alleged' in front...
Since many of students are financially dependent on their families, many parents achieve their control through fiscal means. "No matter what I spend, my parents don't mind paying my credit card bill because that way they find out where every penny is being spent. It's a method of keeping track of me," admits one student. A friend agrees that "my dad is paying for me to go to Harvard, so I have to respect his request that I concentrate in a science...
...name alone is as much a mouthful as the end product. The grandiose "Rosemary and Black Tea Smoked Lamb Loin with a Spicy Eggplant Salad and a Roast Garlic Vereniki" ($19.50), gives little indication as to what the dish will actually taste like. Smoking the lamb is an unlikely method of preparation, but it works well--especially with the vague resonances of black tea, and the eggplant salad has a surprising tartness and spice which keeps the smoked meat from becoming monotonous...
Saunders questions this method and says theteam needs support from the University...