Word: helling
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...asks. So Saida teaches her girls the really important things--how to cook, sew and soothe a husband's ego. "Teaching my daughters how to make their husbands comfortable is the most important thing," she says, "because if a husband is not comfortable, then the woman's life is hell...
...morning, the Clintonian cult of self crashed down. Our new president asked us to believe in things bigger than ourselves, and we did. We believe in many big things now, like the kindness of children sending dollars to Afghanistan and the courage of firemen sprinting into the mouth of hell. But most especially we have remembered to believe in those two victims of the modern academy: America...
...make one hell of a department with people who have left Harvard voluntarily or involuntarily,” he says. But Dickinson’s situation is unique because his family lives in Ripton, Vermont, 15 minutes outside of Middlebury, and he was commuting to Cambridge. Middlebury “was a chance to go to a name-brand school and be near my family...
Usually, when I first tell people about this game of kings, played on a balsa wood board measuring only three feet by two feet, the reaction is the same: “Rahul, what the hell are you talking about...
...even deeper, and has a long history. Armstrong, in "Muhammad", notes that during the time of the First Crusades, many Westerners believed that Muslims were idol-worshippers (actually, the Prophet tore down the idols in Mecca). And Dante, in "The Divine Comedy," placed Muhammad in the Eighth Circle of Hell with the schismatics (even pagans such as Plato and Aristotle got relatively better treatment, with placement in the more scenic Limbo). Much more recently, the novelist Fay Weldon ("Affliction") wrote this about Islam: "The Koran is food for no-thought. It is not a poem on which a society...