Word: gracefulness
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...Ancient Chinese Secrets Re "Breaking Up is Easy to Do" [Nov. 6], on the rising divorce rates in urban China: Divorce is not an exotic Western idea in China. The ancient Chinese lords discarded their wives and concubines to separate chambers when they fell out of grace. It was their form of divorce. But divorce is not an expression of freedom. It is an admission of having failed to properly choose a spouse. Successful marriages take more than personal effort and sacrifice. Husbands and wives must have values in common to get along and thrive, just as corporate cultures must...
...have to walk the other way because he's contact-sensitive. I thought I was going to be the cool mom and travel to Europe with my baby and take him to Fenway Park. But even at minor league games, everyone's throwing peanuts at each other." One saving grace has been an annual trip to Nantucket that Pasternak takes with her friends from college. "They make the house totally safe for Lucas," she says. "Nobody uses milk, eggs or nuts. I don't have to be the food police. It's one of the rare times I can feel...
...also because Michigan has agreed to travel to Lavietes for a game in 2007. In general, teams of the Wolverines’ ilk never deign to visit the homes of lesser-renowned programs—the top dogs are just doing the smaller teams a favor by letting them grace their schedule, the thinking goes, and thus the Harvards of the college basketball universe should be honored just to get the privilege of playing in the major team’s gym. But Michigan, to the Crimson’s pleasant surprise, initiated contact regarding the series and floated...
...Back to Back Baritones Not one but seven a capella groups will grace the Yard this pre-turkey weekend. On Friday, the choice is yours: catch the Harvard and Yale Glee Clubs’ annual collaboration, or scope out the Harvard Krokodiloes and the Yale Whiffenpoofs at Memorial Church. Post-game, don’t fret: the Harvard Din and Tonics, the Radcliffe Pitches, and the Yale Spizzwinks perform in one concert, the Harvard-Yale Jamboree (clever title no additional charge). Glee Club Concert Fri., Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. Sanders Theatre. Tickets $8 for students. Kroks Concert...
...sets accommodate a cast of characters who find again and again that their intellectual de-fenses have either gone out of date or been knocked down by the business of living. The fresh-ness of perspective engendered by such disorientation is consistently rendered with affectionate grace...