Word: heather
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rising star at Harvard Law School and one of the nation’s foremost experts in election law announced yesterday that she has accepted an offer to teach at Yale Law School beginning this fall.Professor of Law Heather K. Gerken has garnered praise for both her teaching ability—she was the first junior professor to win the prestigious Sacks-Freund Award for Teaching Excellence—as well as her scholarship on voting law, diversity, and the role of groups in the democratic process. A graduate of Princeton University and the University...
Growing up in a family of religious nomads who migrated from church to church, Heather Cuthrell says she yearned for a deeper connection to religion from the time she was 10 and converted to Catholicism when she was 16. "It was because of the tradition and the history and the idea that it was the only [faith] we could follow back all the way to the Apostles," she says...
While attending college in Houston, she met her future husband Jim Cuthrell at a local parish. He often participated in Opus Dei events, and it was through him that Heather became familiar with the organization. Its central tenet that people should find sanctity in their everyday lives resonated with her. "I grew up my whole life where you do whatever you want during the week, and then on Sunday you're a Christian," she explains. "A lot of people don't live their faith every day. But with Opus Dei, you don't compartmentalize. You try to live your virtues...
Some family members were worried that the couple was getting involved with a cult. But Heather says they were reassured after reading pamphlets on the organization's practices. "People form these negative opinions because they don't have the right information," she says. Now married for 15 years and living in Long Beach, Calif., with Jim and their two daughters, Heather, 39, says she appreciates the structure that Opus Dei gives her life. She sees setting aside at least an hour a day for prayer as a blessing, not a burden. "I have much more calm because I know...
...Benjamin P. Belser ’09 said that in addition to the healthy and non-healthy food options and comfortable seating, he would also appreciate air conditioners. “Lamont can get a little hot,” he said. However, Lamont Librarian Heather E. Cole wrote in an e-mail that with or without a cafe, Lamont is first and foremost a place for study. “Food service and libraries are not natural partners,” she wrote. “I have the impression that in the period between moonrise and moonset, people...