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...Agee, and other scribes at TIME, described her variously as "rubber-jointed," "brass-lunged," "super-dynamic," "bouncing, bawling," "raucous, rampageous." To Bob Hope she was "a vitamin pill with legs." She seemed to have swallowed a truckload full of them before every performance; she was indomitable, unstoppable, the Fuller Brush flack with a quick smile, a faster line of patter and her foot in your door...
...they feel most alone in their marital struggles, so perhaps it's not surprising to find separate Web networks of FPWs: former pastors' wives. Stephanie Elzy, 36, was driven to launch her FPW website after a brush with divorce, a crisis that led to her husband Rod's leaving the ministry (making her an FPW of another sort). She and Rod, both Seventh-Day Adventists, married when she was 22 and he 29. Though she felt called to her new role, his job soon strained their marriage. Rod earned $38,400 as pastor of a church in Athens...
...last week I received map coordinates for two bunkers in a valley near the Christian border village of Alma Shaab. With the coordinates logged into a GPS device, Ghaith and I walked carefully along a track winding through blossom-scented orange orchards at the bottom of a steep-sided brush-covered valley. Snakes and lizards basking in the hot sun slithered from beneath our feet. But we kept our eyes open for cluster bombs, which have since August caused 224 casualties among Lebanese civilians and mine-clearing crews, which had used red spray paint to mark the location of each...
...typical day at the orphanage for a child Pax's age goes like this: For toddlers, the schedule is wake up at 6 a.m., they then brush their teeth and wash face and hands, have breakfast and then the caretakers take them out to play outside for an hour. The children spend days with caretakers in group activities like singing and drawing. They...
...could be considered a pre-game in anticipation of the restaurant’s official Saturday morning debut. But few actually attended the grand opening, raising the question of how the new kid on the block will fare amidst the neighborhood’s notoriously competitive economic environment. Tom Brush, co-owner of Felipe’s Taqueria, an establishment which has made its home in the Square since 2004, said Qdoba’s opening just a few blocks down from his restaurant would have little long-term effect on his business. “I really don?...