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...happy with the more traditional approach. Priscilla Balcaceres, 16, believes she would still be holding grudges and feuding with friends and family were it not for Bible lessons and sermons on forgiveness. "Before attending Calvary, I believed in God and prayed at night, but I was still very bitter and unhappy about many things in my life," she says. "I've learned what it really means to be a Christian, and now I wake up smiling every morning." Meanwhile, Amanda Sinks, 16, spouts verses from Timothy, Corinthians and James the way other teens recite rap lyrics. "There's nothing boring...
...Schwarzenegger campaign spokesman Matt David disputes the characterization and says "the Angelides campaign is attacking the Governor's bipartisan accomplishments because they only know one way of business: bitter partisan politics. It appears Mr. Angelides is resigned to spending the remaining days of this campaign launching personal smears. In the meantime, the Governor will continue to talk about his vision for moving California forward." Others note that similar charges have been leveled at the incumbent throughout the campaign and hasn't stuck yet. Nevertheless, Art Torres, state Democratic chairman, urges Angelides to "keep telling people that if they think they...
...slow start. At 5:25 in the second, co-captain and senior Mike Garcia intercepted a pass, beat all defenders on the breakaway, and slipped the ball past the goalkeeper. Sophomore David Tune and Garcia each logged assists in the team effort. BROWN 9, HARVARD 4 Brown and Harvard, bitter Ivy League rivals, faced off again in the quarterfinals. The teams met two weeks ago in a fiercely contested match, with Harvard netting the game-winner with 54 seconds left in overtime. With the crushing defeat fresh in their minds, the Bears took to the pool looking to avenge their...
...Theory stake for $53 million in 2003 (He is now suing Rosen for $182 million claiming "fraudulent self-dealing." Rosen calls the suit "a fantasy ... created in total disregard of the facts") and in 2004 made an unsuccessful bid to buy Barneys, the fashion department store. "It was a bitter battle," Rory says. "He really wanted that. Most people think of Elie as a wholesaler, but he's really a retailer at heart...
...Still, a question doctors my age ask each other all the time is, "Are you steering your kids into medical school?" The answers are quite often bitter, sometimes wistful - and usually negative. Partly this is not just a doctor thing. No father wants his kids to suffer, his boys to miss the good times, his girls to be toughened and, yes, coarsened, by the vulgar realities which nonetheless shaped him. Largely, though, the answers are "medical" ones and they revolve around two factors: first, that it seems a kid who can get straight As in a hard course of college...