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Only then did he learn he was also thrice cursed. He had lost family members: Clifford's sister, Ruth McCourt, 45, and his niece Juliana, 4, had been aboard the United Airlines flight that plowed through 2 World Trade Center. He had also lost a family friend: Paige Farley Hackel, 46, who was meeting McCourt in Los Angeles but traveling separately on the American Airlines flight that crashed into the other tower. Hackel, a spiritual counselor, was heading to Los Angeles for a seminar with Deepak Chopra. McCourt was taking her daughter on a surprise trip to Disneyland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing The End | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

...Frank McCourt's brothers b) making those school uniforms so darn hot c) the Filet-O-Fish d) sins against Orthodox Christians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz May 14, 2001 | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...kind of buzz a former factory worker can only dream of. The story of a teenage boy who gets into a sexually charged relationship with his father's mistress, leading to an accidental death, it has been championed by such big-name writers as Wally Lamb and Frank McCourt. The birth of a new literary star? "I'm so busy writing my next book," says Searles, "I haven't had a chance to process any of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Searles | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...Arts held a panel to discuss both McDonagh's portrayal of Irish culture in a multi-ethnic world and the reason for the play's tremendous popularity. These issues, while compelling, are certainly not new. From John Millington Synge and his Playboy of the Western World to Frank McCourt and the recent phenomenon of Angela's Ashes, the theme of impoverished rural Ireland (dubbed "The Genre of Irish Squalor" by one critic) is one that never fails to attract an enthusiastic audience, especially an American...

Author: By Annalise Nelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Martin McDonagh's Irish Beauty | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...work can only be done by extremely highly-qualified conservators, of which I'd guess there are only a few in the country," McCourt said...

Author: By Kristoffer A. Garin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard's Glass Flowers To Get New Gleam | 10/25/2000 | See Source »

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