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Gina Barreca. Regina Barreca (born 1957) is an American academic and humorist. She is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English literature and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut and winner of UConn's highest award for excellence in teaching. [1] [2] She is the author of ten books, including the best selling They Used ...
Gene Norman Weingarten is an American journalist, and former syndicated humor columnist for The Washington Post. [1] [2] He is the only two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. [3] [4] Weingarten is known for both his serious and humorous work. [5] Through September 2021, Weingarten's column, "Below the Beltway," was published ...
Gina (occasional variants Geena, Gena, Jena, Jeana, Jeanna) is a feminine given name, in origin a hypocoristic form of names ending in -gina (by metanalysis of the latinate feminine suffix -ina ), such as Luigina, Regina or Georgina, also of Virginia or Eugenia . The short form was popularized in the 1950s by the actress Gina Lollobrigida (1927 ...
As humorist and author of "It's Not That I'm Bitter," Gina Barreca (right) puts it, Valentine's Day is ripe for wrong turns, especially if you're attempting to cover your bases on a budget. Here ...
Gina Raimondo. Gina Marie Raimondo ( / rəˈmɒndoʊ /; born May 17, 1971) is an American businesswoman, lawyer, politician, and venture capitalist who has served since 2021 as the 40th United States secretary of commerce. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as the 75th governor of Rhode Island from 2015 to 2021, and was the first ...
Early life. Elizabeth Stamatina Fey was born on May 18, 1970, in Upper Darby Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.Her father, Donald Henry Fey, was a Korean War veteran, university administrator for the University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson University, and a grant proposal writer who raised $500 million for schools, hospitals, and public service agencies through proposals and ...
An act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment. The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 ( Pub. L. 110–233 (text) (PDF), 122 Stat. 881, enacted May 21, 2008, GINA / ˈdʒiː.nə / JEE-nə ), is an Act of Congress in the United States designed to prohibit some ...
Gina Joy Carano (born April 16, 1982 [1]) is an American actress and former mixed martial artist. She competed in Elite Xtreme Combat and Strikeforce from 2006 to 2009, where she compiled a 7–1 record. [2] Her popularity led to her being called the "face of women's MMA", although Carano rejected this title. [3]