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...tread that wire now without looking down in panic. We're geared to believe that risk begets reward and our tomorrows are brighter than our todays. One-strike-and-you're-out is a neck-snapping reversal for a culture accustomed to assuming that fate is a welcome friend...
...serve them - then came back the next day to apologize. Fun times. But life goes on, and the free spirit grew into a divorced mom of two daughters. Stevens decided she should find a job with better hours and benefits. There was just one problem: no college degree. A friend told her about a job processing medical claims. Stevens talked her way into the interview and just kept talking as the boss looked at her quizzically. Suddenly something clicked in his head, and he said, "Aren't you that girl from the deli?" He had met her years earlier, maybe...
...make matters worse, someone else in his village has undertaken the same voyage before him--with tragic consequences. Salih's other novels include The Wedding of Zein and the Bandarshah stories, although none of them inspired the kind of devotion that Season evokes in its readers. Like my college friend, I have over the years recommended the novel to dozens of people, who in turn have done the same...
...just kind of saw that I was an athletic little terror in gym class,” O’Connor recalls. “He asked me if I wanted to come to a couple varsity wrestling practices, and maybe be the manager. Me and my best friend, we were the managers; we rolled around in the corner and tried to emulate the big guys. I loved it, and the rest is history.” By age eight, the young talent had retired as a varsity wrestling manager, and the “little terror” began...
...training, students paired up and participated in a short role-play, in which one represented a suicidal student and the other a listening friend. Many in attendance said the exercise increased their understanding of the perspective and concerns of both parties...