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...happens to little girls after they die? They go to heaven--and that's exactly what Susie does. In The Lovely Bones (an exquisite corpse of a title), heaven is a warm, grassy place reminiscent of the high school Susie never got to go to, complete with an "intake counselor" who makes sure she gets nicely settled. It's the paradise children pray for, full of soccer fields and friendly dogs. "Our heaven had an ice cream shop, where, when you asked for peppermint stick ice cream, no one ever said, 'It's seasonal...
...when my friend, in return, described his impressive MIT internship as a counselor in the Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science program, my carefree and confident attitude towards my own summer plan began to implode. Mine was not the status quo Harvard student summer. It served no purpose; it imparted no new skills...
...known the family ever since they moved into the apartment above hers 24 years ago. Padilla played baseball in the school yard across the street and attended St. Sylvester Church with his mother, brother and two sisters. To Ojeda, he was nothing but polite. At Darwin Elementary School, school counselor Art Ryder remembers him not as a bully but as a force. "You always got the feeling that he wasn't looking for trouble--but if you started it, he'd finish it. He had eyes that could stare right through you." Growing up in a place racked by gang...
Just days after Bush approved Card's plan, speechwriter Michael Gerson was told to begin work on an address to be delivered the following week. Gerson went through 14 drafts, with editing provided by Card, presidential counselor Karen Hughes and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. In an Oval Office meeting Tuesday, the advisers decided Bush should also confront the pre-9/11 intelligence failures and provide a progress report on the war against al-Qaeda. "We recognized the President had to address what's on the nation's mind," Hughes says. Cabinet members were not told of the plan...
James P. Conroy, head counselor at New Trier Township High School outside Chicago, stresses the importance of weather and location in the college choice...