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...selling. She grew up in a modest household on the South Side of Chicago, where her father ran a deli. She dropped out of the University of Illinois (she later finished her degree) and spent six years waitressing in Berkeley, Calif. After losing $50,000 she had been lent to a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch, she became a Merrill broker herself. She launched her own financial-planning company in 1987 and then wrote her first book, You've Earned It, Don't Lose It, which became a best seller. She has made her mark offering commonsense advice tailored to people...
...Lent, I gave up going to church. It’s been a sacrifice. Now, when Sunday rolls around, I no longer feel the delightful pangs of guilt that used to follow me from meeting to meeting. In the company of friends who showed up last Wednesday at dinner with dark smudges on their foreheads, I had to slink around shamefacedly, muttering something about how I’d thought the service was at 4:30. But I wasn’t alone. The response of most of my friends when I posed the question “What...
...some of my peers getting pumped for Purim, others giving up chicken for Lent, and others conscientiously forswearing any form of belief, I cannot help wishing that Harvard provided us the opportunity to engage with the complex fabric of religious belief both inside and outside the classroom. Harvard is a wondrously tolerant climate for debate and exchange among a wide variety of thoughts, backgrounds, and beliefs, but the voice of religion on campus is largely inaudible. In fact, if there were no food involved, it might be completely silent. Nearly everything faith-related that I have done at Harvard...
...into radio at age 16, when his father lent him money for a summer course in radio engineering. Then he got a broadcaster's license, a job at a local radio station, and his own radio show. Limbaugh went to Southern Missouri State for a year before dropping out to pursue his career...
...Tiger" era of the 1990s. They also tend to support Fianna Fail, the party at the head of Ireland's coalition governments for the past 12 years. Following the FitzPatrick loan scandal, it emerged that 10 Anglo Irish customers, since dubbed the "golden circle" by the Irish media, were lent more than $560 million to buy shares in the bank - a deal that may have broken laws on market abuse. To date, only a fifth of this loan has been repaid. The government has repeatedly denied allegations of links with the Anglo 10, but despite public calls to name...