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...always looks freshly pressed, even dapper. He admits he didn't care about economics during his undergraduate days at Dartmouth. "I think I took one course," he says. It is easy, given his relatively young age and his background, to view Geithner as the perpetual understudy to Summers' intellectual alpha dog. But friends of both say that oversimplifies their relationship. "Tim is whip-smart and has never hesitated to disagree with Larry on substantive issues if he felt Larry was wrong," says a former Treasury colleague of theirs. Geithner, moreover, has far better political fingertips...
...novels like Virgin Mistress, Scandalous Love-Child. According to Clare Somerville, director of sales and marketing, the rough-and-tumble world of rugby fits snugly into the publisher's literary field of play. "[The books] have all the elements of a quintessential Mills & Boon romance: jet-set locations, hunky alpha-male heroes and hot sex, but in a rugby context...
...this case, Emma has some buried resentments; she has long been the tender caretaker of Liv's aggressive, obnoxious alpha. Or as some might put it, her willing doormat. Emma's fiancé has a particularly cruel spin on things. In an American Idol analogy, he says Liv is Simon (Cowell); Emma is peppy Paula (Abdul). "But everyone listens to Simon," Emma says with dismay. "I wouldn't marry Simon," Fletcher tells her. "I'm marrying me some Paula." Then he licks his chops...
...Underpinning this success is Holy Trinity Brompton's Alpha course, a 10-week introduction to Christianity aimed at converting young people. Since the course was first run out of HTB's basement in 1990, it has gone global and reached more than 11 million people across various denominations. But it is at home where its appeal is most apparent. Every Wednesday, crowds of teenagers and twentysomethings line up hundreds deep at Holy Trinity Brompton for a chance to share a free meal, listen to a sermon, sing devotional songs and decide if they want to let Jesus into their heart...
...groups have raised concerns about the course's content: Concerned about the influence of Holy Trinity Brompton on Britain's future ruling class, the British Humanist Association recently partnered with Richard Dawkins, secularist Oxford professor and author of The God Delusion, to raise funds for advertisements to counter the Alpha course's own advertising campaign, with posters on buses carrying an inscription with a similar font to the Alpha's posters: "There is probably no god. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life," they state. Within a few weeks, the fund raised $180,000 after setting a target of just...