Word: foundered
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...Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College. The pieces Ferlinghetti selected addressed themes ranging from T.S. Eliot’s romanticism to his own upbringing in Brooklyn to what he called “the increasingly cataclysmic world of the 21st century.” As founder of the San Francisco bookstore and printing house City Lights, Ferlinghetti was one of the earliest publishers of beat poetry. His own writing has long been regarded as politically and socially critical. “He’s taking the clothes off society,” said attendee James Cross...
...Life is 10 percent what life does to you, and 90 percent how you respond to it,” Bryant said. “It’s about choices—are you going to evolve or devolve, impress or depress?” Bryant is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE, America’s first non-profit social investment banking organization...
...people present different kinds of credentials.” Standardized test scores and alumni interviews are especially important for homeschoolers, Lewis says.‘JUST NORMAL KIDS’A group of homeschoolers at Harvard banded together last year to form an official student organization, Homeschoolers Anonymous. The founder and president, Stephen T. Norberg ’06, says he created the club to help freshmen transition from homeschooled backgrounds to college. The club, which has 26 Facebook.com members, aims to dispel some of the misconceptions surrounding homeschooling, he says.Emphasizing that the club’s title...
...stop his ears. "Soon," said the witness, "I began to hear the forceful blows of his discipline ... there were more than a thousand terrible blows, precisely timed. The floor was covered in blood." That is not an early Da Vinci Code draft. It is a description of Opus Dei founder Escriv's routine by his eventual successor, quoted in a biography of Escriv. Escriv emphasized that others should not emulate his ferocity. But numeraries are expected, although not compelled, to wear a cilice, a small chain with inward-pointing spikes, around the upper thigh for two hours each...
...Canada's most famous restaurant chains, which Wendy's will spin off by year-end, went public last month. But CEO Paul House wasn't surprised. "All the indications were that this was going to be a very popular IPO," House said. Tim Hortons, named for its co-founder, a Toronto Maple Leafs hockey great, had sales of $1.2 billion in 2005. The chain serves doughnuts, coffee and lunch fare in 2,611 outlets across Canada. There are 292 stores in the U.S., which House hopes to increase to 500. The U.S. market has such entrenched rivals as Starbucks...