Word: questioner
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Despite the fact that having more students at an early stage in their careers will add diversity to the classroom, some current HBS students question the wisdom of attending business school too early...
...civil rights investigation based on the fact that nearly all those arrested were African American. The hospital soon reached an agreement with the department's Office for Civil Rights to stop telling law enforcers when pregnant women test positive. But the high court still must decide the constitutional question: Does the purported damage being done to unborn children--and the cost to the public of caring for addicted babies--outweigh the requirement that officials obtain warrants for searches...
Johnson's ranch is a nice spread of 2,700 acres in the hill country just west of Austin, without question some of the prettiest land in Texas. Johnson was born in a house on the property and first attended school in a one-room schoolhouse that is also on the ranch. His father and grandfather had farmed and ranched there. While Johnson used the ranch as a retreat, he tried to make it pay too. He had a foreman who lived on the property and bred Hereford cattle for show. Johnson hated being thought of as a hick...
...have a limited tolerance for the history of real families other than our own. The exceptions to this rule crop up when the clan in question is particularly influential or glamorous--the Kennedys, Rothschilds, folks of that ilk--or when a family chronicler comes along who can tell tales so irresistibly engaging that the boundary between personal lore and public interest dissolves. That is what Nomi Eve accomplishes in The Family Orchard (Knopf; 316 pages; $25), a first novel in the form of an extended genealogy of the author's forebears, covering some 160 years...
...Short of a longstanding personal friendship with the author, readers of this book have no way of determining whether any of the people and events in The Family Orchard have any historical reality or, for that matter, any genuine connection to the real Nomi Eve. But she anticipates this question of authenticity and announces her answer at the beginning: "I believe that fiction is formed truth. I believe that history is a way of knowing all of this. I believe that legend is how we read between the lines...