Word: joyful
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Experts say the rockiest phase of the commuter marriage often comes with the longed-for permanent reunion. Tom McConnell, 62, and his wife Joy, 55, lived apart when Tom was laid off from his job as an insurance executive in 1993 and found a similar position in Boston--115 miles away from their home in Simsbury, Conn., a commute too grueling to make daily. When Tom finally moved back 10 years later, Joy had "gotten used to being without him, to having my own life," she says. How long did it take to readjust? "Six months to a year," says...
...played in the event a few times before, and also struggled in the early rounds before building the confidence to “play [her] own game” later in the tournament. Putting past struggles behind her, Sheldon never trailed in her final match against Tara Joy Connelly. The Massachusetts tournament was held at The Country Club in Brookline, which happens to be Sheldon’s home course. She says that she can’t play her best “when thinking about an outcome or end result,” and in trying...
...brand-new Qdoba franchise down the block, stocked with burritos, stainless steel, and plasma TVs?Bartley’s Burger Cottage has been packing them in since 1960. “Just good burgers, fast service. I guess it’s an institution,” says Joy Shean, a New Yorker who visits Bartley’s whenever she is in Boston. “It’s these little places that make Harvard Harvard.”But since the 1997 closure of the Tasty Sandwich Shop—a 24-hour mecca that stood...
Earlier this year the U.S. Mint issued a silver dollar commemorating the event, and throughout the anniversary's week there will be other observations marking this turning point in U.S. history. But the joy will be somewhat muted, for American schools are still nearly as segregated as they were 50 years ago. Almost three-quarters of African-American students are currently in schools that are more than 50% black and Latino, while the average white student goes to a school that is 80% white, according to a 2001 study by the National Center for Education Statistics. Similarly, a 2003 study...
...Joey was a person that made others around him better people,” said Eric M. Hanzich ’11, Hanzich’s younger brother. “He was that person that people wanted to be around who exuded joy throughout his life. There was never an unhappy moment with...