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...been both the joy and the privilege of my life to serve as dean of this most wondrous law school," she said...
...never knew him to lie; I never knew him to dissemble,” she added about her late husband, who first courted her in 1956 by inviting her to the Casablanca on Brattle Street for a beer. “He was a joy to live with...
...more overtly political - the mean men now had jobs in government embassies and prisons. He sought further refinement, a paring down to the essence in poetry that explicitly condemned U.S. government militarism. In The Bombs: "Here they go again/ The Yanks in their armored parade/ Chanting their ballads of joy/ As they gallop across the big world/ Praising America's God./ The gutters are clogged with the dead...
...reason: sorrow does not spread nearly as readily as joy. Nicholas Christakis, one of the study's authors, says happy people form groups and socialize. Unhappy people spend more time alone, not always by choice. "Do you want to hang out with an unhappy person?" says Christakis, who teaches sociology at Harvard. "My feeling is that happiness declines during recessions, but I am not sure how much...
Sandler's song notwithstanding, few Hanukkah productions have come close to matching the enduring status of A Charlie Brown Christmas - but the holiday is increasingly spreading its Jewish joy to the world. Last month, thinking woman's heartthrob Jon Stewart appeared on Stephen Colbert's Christmas TV special and meekly sang the tune, Can I Interest You in Hanukkah? Whether the answer from most viewers was yes or no, at least Kyle can tell his South Park buddies it's getting a little less lonely to be a Jew on Christmas...