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...most moving and instructive anecdote appears at the end of the book, when O’Brien describes the death of the Adams’ only daughter, also named Louisa, in 1812. The baby’s protracted and painful death from dysentery and fever, over a period of four months, engendered a profound and lasting depression in her mother, who began to pine for death herself: “I feel that all my wishes center in the grave,” she wrote in her diary. To this haunting episode, O’Brien attributes Louisa?...
...North American weekend box office had to fight off a continent-deep whiteout: another walloping snow storm on the East Coast, a high-rated Winter Olympics and hockey fever in Canada. Yet it looks to surpass last year's end-of-February count by about 7%. Regardless of snow or four-man bobsled races, people still want to go to the movies...
...Seung Jun Lee, a 16-year-old high school student in Yangju, 30 miles north of Seoul, returned home from cram school at lunch to watch Kim skate with his family. "Maybe I will have to skip class today," he predicted amid the excitement. Even businessmen had caught Kim fever and were willing to suffer a dip in productivity during her skate. "When Kim Yu-Na perform[ed], I let all the workers stop, and we all watched together on the TV in the company," said Beom Jin Hong, CEO of an electronics-manufacturing company in Incheon...
Losing hockey teams, frigid weather, Bieber Fever. Even before the Olympics, we thought that Canada needed help. Well, we hope for the sake of our North American neighbor that help doesn’t come through the World Wide...
...Toronto-based Hudson's Bay Co., during the opening ceremonies, when the Canadians wore them as they circled the track during the parade of nations. With the maple leaf and the five Olympic rings stitched into the gloves, they seemed to cover all the bases - national pride, Olympic fever, the cuteness factor. But it's not just Canadians who are obsessing over them. Oprah herself gave them a shout-out on Feb. 19, lifting their cachet, and sales, into the stratosphere. (See TIME's full coverage of the 2010 Winter Games...