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Father, I attend Mass for reasons familiar to any good Roman Catholic: habit and guilt. Never did a Sunday go by in my youth without an hour slouched on a wooden pew. You see, my father was once one of you. Like many Irish-American boys of his generation, he joined the seminary as a teen and wore the collar until his mid-30s. On his mission in Japan, he met a lovely young Buddhist whom he successfully converted. After he wrote to the Vatican and renounced his priesthood, she in turn successfully converted him into a husband...
There's something to be said for that, isn't there? Mass became for me an hour-long meditation in the community of the faithful, reaffirming ancient beliefs in familiar if inscrutable chant. I'm not so sure that isn't what the Apostles intended...
...current estimated death toll, including people in the street and those trapped in the warehouse, is over 200 people. The warehouse, unfortunately, was a 24-hour post, and thus many TAM workers were inside at the time of the crash. Some eyewitnesses said some workers escaped by jumping out of the second story and running from the building. But many died inside. By the time the fire waned it had already gutted the entire building...
Finding the right balance isn't easy. It took Kelly Schandel, an interior designer and lifestyle consultant in Santa Monica, Calif., who used to work in publicity for Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, two years after launching her own business before she could ratchet back on her 70-hour workweek. "It consumed my life. Even if I wasn't in the office or meeting clients, I was at the newsstand reading magazines. It wasn't very financially rewarding, but it's turned the corner," says Schandel, 42, who says she now grosses about $15,000 per month and leaves...
...grows, don't be afraid to get help. "The healthy entrepreneurs are ones who have come from large organizations where people are delegated responsibilities," says Newton. Buchinsky had 20 years of marketing experience before she started Little Racquets, and has hired two college students whom she pays $10 an hour to help teach her growing class load. Schandel found an assistant at nearby Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles whom she pays $17 an hour...