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...carve out a third option--feigning improvement by, as she put it, acting "as normal as I could." When she agreed to spend her winter break at a psychiatric hospital, the university stopped threatening to kick her out. But afterward, says Giedinghagen, "I felt like I had to hide how I was doing from my doctor, my counselor, my nutritionist, so that I could stay...
...When romance was called for, Mercer was there too. "How Little We Know," for which Hoagy Carmichael provided the plangent melody, boasts a lovely sense of ignorance toward a potential affair: "Who knows why an April breeze never remains? / Why the stars in the trees hide when it rains? / Love comes along casting a spell, / Will it sing you a song, / Will it say a farewell? / Who can tell?" And at times, Mercer could twist a song's kicker. "Tangerine," written with Victor Schertzinger for The Fleet's In, sounds for most of its length like a standard number about...
...report on Opus Dei was essentially correct and fair, but the repeated references to the society as "secret" and "secretive" were off the mark. The story is a proof of our transparency, based as it was on interviews with many of the faithful of Opus Dei, who did not hide their membership but on the contrary made an effort to answer all questions, including some of a very personal nature. The photos of the discipline [a small whip] and the cilice [a chain] presented them in such a way that readers might not know whether they were looking at instruments...
...report on Opus Dei was essentially correct and fair, but the repeated references to the society as "secret" and "secretive" were off the mark. The story is a proof of our transparency, based as it was on interviews with many of the faithful of Opus Dei, who did not hide their membership but on the contrary made an effort to answer all questions, including some of a very personal nature. The photos of the discipline [a small whip] and the cilice [a chain] presented them in such a way that readers might not know whether they were looking at instruments...
...believe in unobservable and unrepeatable macroevolution to have a working knowledge of genetics. Creationists and proponents of intelligent design are quite at home with the concepts of Mendelian variation within species and natural selection. They simply object to wild extrapolations beyond observable limits of genetic variability. Don't hide behind the cloak of science when it's clear that you're an evolution evangelist...