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Karr is the last person who would call her story inspirational--you can almost hear her dry snort at the word--but ultimately, she can't deny it. Lit chronicles her finding first her higher power, then cautiously calling that God and finally embracing Catholicism. She adopts prayer grudgingly and often hilariously ("I'll keep at this perfunctory gratitude the way a stout girl drinks diet sodas while stuffing her face with cheese fries") but is so convincing of her need for it that even an atheist would have trouble arguing her out of her Sunday pilgrimages...
According to Yesawich, Oasis is tailor-made for first-timers--hence the park, the golf, the shows. "Getting them on the ship is the big hurdle," says Brown. "So the way to get a ton of them up the gangplank is to make it as much like land as possible." Apparently, irony floats...
...opening speech, Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons said that 10 years have elapsed since the city first publicly acknowledged the consequences of climate change. This past May, the Cambridge City Council officially recognized climate change as an “emergency,” and plans to hold a city-wide climate congress has been in the works since Thanksgiving...
...first survey—which was released in May, weeks after the virus first made its appearance in the U.S.—found that nearly half of Americans were concerned that they or their family members would fall victim to the H1N1...
Upon graduating from the College, Houghton entered the Business School, where he reportedly received such poor grades his first year that he was forced to withdraw from the MBA program for two years. In his time off, Houghton worked for Goldman Sachs and Co.—he finally returned to Harvard to complete...