• Yet Claire Tomalin, whose studies of Mary Wolstonecraft, Nellie Ternan and Dorothea Jordan have proved her to be one of our most painstaking, distinguished and sympathetic biographers, has produced a portrait of remarkable subtlety.

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  • There is Lamb, desperately anxious about his sister Mary, whose spells of piercing madness disrupt their gentle life together.

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  • Mary (whose car, a big white boat of a vehicle, was named Floyd) had an egg-shaped chair in her basement that had speakers built into it.

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  • However, Mary South, whose grandfather, a first-class steward, died in the disaster, admitted she was "warming" to Titanic 2.

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  • On a recent spring day, mothers pushing strollers were ubiquitous, said city administrator Mary Peschel, whose office faces the street.

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  • The federation teaches youngsters about Bill Pickett, who invented steer wrestling, and the pugnacious "Stagecoach" Mary Fields, whose nickname was derived from her reliability in delivering mail across an ornery Montana frontier.

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  • That means bringing in people like Mary Jo and Richard whose job it is to stand up for you.

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  • The GAA has handed down some of its stiffest ever sanctions to St Mary's Rasharkin whose members were involved.

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  • If the film works, it is largely because of Depp, whose performance owes more and more to Mary Pickford and less to Douglas Fairbanks.

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  • At WaMu, the chairman of that committee is Mary Pugh, a Seattle-area investment manager whose company once did business with WaMu and who has been a director since 1999.

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  • There are no sketches or documents relating to the Sistine Madonna's composition, but the museum fills this gap by exhibiting several other Raphaels, including the famous portrait (on loan from the Uffizi) of a melancholy Julius II slumped in his red throne and a portrait of the noblewomen Donna Velata, whose noble features may have inspired Raphael's depiction of Mary in the Sistine Madonna.

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  • The faith's official theology, after wrestling with the different senses in which Christ was human and divine, had crystallised with the pronouncement in the early fifth century that Mary was Theotokos, the Mother of God: the person whose body was the miraculous locus of a unique cosmic event, the coming together of the Creator and the created, physical world.

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  • Claudette Colvin and Mary Louise Smith were also arrested for refusing to give up their seats and were among five black women whose federal law suit led to the Supreme Court ruling that the segregation was unconstitutional.

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  • Our roster also includes incumbents, such as President Mary McAleese of Ireland, President Tarja Halonen of Finland and President Vaira Vike-Freiberga of Latvia, whose term is up next year but who is rumored to be a potential successor to Kofi Annan as head of the United Nations.

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