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...There, too, the Internet provides an outlet. Lora Horn, 35, a mother of two from Las Vegas, moved to rural Garrett, Ind., in 2004. "I never fit into the mold," says the former social worker. "I was a tomboy. I'm not domestic. I'm intellectual. I'm an introvert. I'm a person who likes to buck the norm." She began blogging a year ago as RebelliousPastorsWife to "have the conversations I wasn't having in real life"--about "theology, politics, family life, knitting, baseball." Recently she struck up a heated conversation online about the role of the sacraments...
...crafted by none other than “Punk’d” star Ashton Kutcher, paired eight socially inept men with visually stimulating, intellectually lacking ladies. The couples were then pitted against each another in competition for a cash prize. Dern, a self-proclaimed “introvert,” was solicited for the show by recruiters while flyering on campus last fall. “I never thought I would be on a reality TV show, never wanted to,” says Dern. “It just sort of fell into my lap, really...
...voice of the Arab world, and in turn some Arab critics took him to task for being too moderate and Western-friendly. In truth he was his own man, concerned only with a personal and human truth older and greater than politics. "I am a very old man, an introvert," he once told an interviewer, who wasn't sure whether Mahfouz was joking or not. "So winning the Nobel was really terrible for me. I won the prize, yes, but I lost everything else...
...Homeschoolers Anonymous, agrees. “This is kind of like a social myth about the homeschoolers,” Hudson says. “Norberg’s the most outgoing, crazy, wild kid you’ll ever meet, and I wasn’t an introvert.”FOUNDATIONS IN FAITHBut experts at the GSE say they worry that some homeschooled students, especially those from fundamentalist Christian families, may have trouble adjusting to the diversity of a college campus.“Some of them are very ill-prepared to enter this big world and then...
...chance to do that, and my instinct was to back away. 'Kurt Cobain just died, do you want to go on ABC tonight?' No, I don't. I don't want to speak for my generation that doesn't want to be spoken for," he says. "I'm an introvert...