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Julie Harris Julie Tibbetts Julie Driscoll

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Donna Reed Margaret Mead Boss Tweed

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Ron Silver Remington Steele Jeremy Irons Edit: looks like the subliminal follow-up to Long Dong Silver was Ron Jeremy... paging Achtung-Dr-Freud-Calling...

Kevin -- is it possible for you to directly email the "organizer" of the reunion? And send a copy of the story you posted here? Can he or she provide a list of all email addresses of the class? Or at least those who've answered so far? Seems to me the organizer could've set up a list-serve on Yahoo for much cheaper (at least it would've allowed free emailing between list members).

Kim Novak Kim Hunter Rudyard Kipling

"PROCRASTINATE NOW!" "My Other Car Is a Piece of S***, Too"

Me too! (Luckily for my boss, I didn't know how to find my way to the back room... ) Well, I may have to stay away even today, on accounta work, but before I go, let me add my to Jim and Jim!

Dred Scott Donald Fehr Alfred Hitchcock Alexander Cockburn James Coburn Derek Flint

I like lots of things without piano -- but this comment struck me because Jack DeJohnette is actually a good pianist, too! Maybe that's his secret -- even when he's "only" playing the drums, he's still the pianist in the group!

Carolina Herrera Virginia Woolf Georgia O'Keeffe

I do know that a drummer he has long worked with who is one of his closest friends also visits him at Calvary regularly. This is awfully sad. Calvary is just about the best place you could be in, though, when going through this difficult passage (a friend of mine with terminal cancer ended her days there in 2001). It's really too bad his girlfriend lives out of town.

Glenn "Big Dog" Robinson Bryant "Big Country" Reeves Randy "Big Unit" Johnson

Indeed !

(Need that rolling-on-the-floor smilie) I think I'm gonna have to embroider that on a pillow!!!

Exactly what I thought while glancing over this thread yesterday. to anybody who inspires a habitual afternoon-TV-watcher to check One Hundred Years of Solitude out of the library...

Tee-heath!!!

Is it common among medical researchers to farm out their writing tasks? My wife, who is an historian, has never heard of this being the case in her discipline. I have a friend who makes a pretty good living doing this sort of work for doctors. I suppose either historians are expected to be able to write, or there is less excess cash hanging around to pay ghostwriters in the history field than in the health field. --eric There's not a lot of excess cash in academic medical research (pharmaceutical/device industry, maybe... but even there the significant $$$ would go to the ad copy writers, not the scientific writers!). It's more that academic history is so closely intertwined with writing -- whereas lab bench, operating room and bedside skills are quite a bit further afield -- and also, my "ghost-writing" has always been for people that I work with daily: answering phones, pipetting samples, doing literature searches (in the library in the old days, mostly online now) and writing grant proposals, reports, patient-consent-forms and a million other things... and a lot of the "writing" is re-writing, copy-editing. Or in the case of an abstract, distilling the gist of a 10 page paper into 500 words, 250 words.

Mayte Prince Willie Nelson

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Things I wrote in the Politics Forum here were classified as "male" -- But an abstract for a scientific paper I ghost-wrote turned out "female" -- of course, the topic was "estrogen replacement therapy"

Sid Vicious Johnny Rotten Jah Wobble

Thanks! I had a good day. (Roses from my son, and he did the laundry!)

Lucian Freud Lucienne Goldberg Linda Tripp