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...said Ezekiel, “just wanted to let you know I put away the buggy without too much problems. It’s up on Wimbley Street.”“That’s just fine,” Daddy said with cheer.“So I’ll be waitin’ in front of the parsonage after luncheon.”“Yes, that’s good, Ezekiel,” Daddy said.Ezekiel nodded and we watched him go. At the sanctuary doors, he stopped before an usher...

Author: By Nathan D. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Featured Fiction Part Two | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...Most discover they're actually more interested in other things." Is that 70% majority happy? "Yes, because they're following their passion," Brooks says. "The saddest thing to me is seeing someone take a job just because it pays well, and then spend all that money on toys to cheer them up for being miserable in their job. People who are doing what they love hardly feel they're working at all, just living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding a Dream Job: A Little Chaos Theory Helps | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...evolution skeptics have reason to cheer as well, because the celebration of Darwin’s work among scientists and in the media will likely reignite the debate over whether evolution or creationism should be taught in schools. Creationists will point out that the Darwin love-fest among scientists amounts to little more than devotion to a religious leader, reinforcing the views of the nearly half of Americans who don’t believe in evolution anyway. The display in the Science Center prepared by the UK-based Darwin 200 in February seemed to anticipate this debate...

Author: By Adam R. Gold | Title: Not the Year of Our Lord | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...pampering was too obscure: luxe hotels (Welcome to the Parker), fashion (The Rachel Zoe Project), hairdressing (Blow Out), real estate (Million Dollar Listing), upscale gyms (Work Out), home dcor (Top Design), even exclusive-travel-booking (First Class All the Way). Whether you snark at the housewives or cheer for Top Chef's hopeful restaurateurs, there's always a window-shopping appeal: the aspirational lure of those spa treatments and seared foie gras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold Diggers of 2009 | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...down” is. It doesn’t make sense, and I refuse to believe otherwise. I also have little pep. Like almost everyone else at this school, I enjoy two things: G-chat and complaining. Usually, both at the same time. But watching these other schools cheer, I kind of wished more Harvard people were there. There I was, wearing the Harvard sweatshirt that I bought during pre-frosh weekend, excited by the Leverett 80’s dance and the Scrabble I played with my host. For the first time since then, I was wearing...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pathetically Peppy? | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

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