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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...where this reader came from - but I had an email from a reader that had gone into a bookshop. She didn't explain what the issue was, but she decided that she wasn't going to continue to live. And she came across Mma Ramotswe, and this changed her mind about taking her life. And she wrote me a very nice email saying that this had happened. Well, what can one say in those circumstances? We also get a lot of messages from people who have, say, been having chemotherapy. That's a very common thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander McCall Smith | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...beret. No one liked him because he just couldn’t choose one hat, and insisted on always wearing all three, despite the fact that doing so was cumbersome and ostentatious. Soon, he had people of three different ethnicities beating him in the streets. Just keep that in mind, Adam. Keep that in mind.Cassandra Extavour: According to her Web site, she specializes in “gamete production.” Oh really, Cassandra? We’ve mastered not only gamete production, but distribution and cleanup…and for some reason, no one’s rushing...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Hotshots? More Like Waterboys | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...kinder and gentler era, universities sought—as many of this region’s more ancient preparatory schools still ostensibly do—to educate not only the mind but also the “whole person.” For, in those days, Harvard and others cared not so much that their graduates were successful at their chosen professions as that they were decent, upstanding, and honorable gentlemen who would not bring shame upon their almae matres by their ill conduct...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: That Nameless Virtue | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...meeting with URC last November, the developers voiced their desire to convert the remaining condominiums into rentals, but has not met with the plaintiffs since, according to Gray. “Instead of coming out and saying, ‘look we’ve changed our mind,’they’ve ignored us since November,” said Gray. Equity Residential spokesman Marty McKenna declined to comment on the project because litigation is still pending. With no word on the closing dates for the condominiums, those who have entered into purchase and sale contracts...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Affiliates Sue Developers | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

Douthat's first column may have been decent--considering that he is replacing Kristol--but it was not mind-blowing. FlyBy is still awaiting that column on Gen Ed and the state of undergraduate education at Harvard. Also, why does he highlight his New Haven roots in his bio? Not cool, Mr. Douthat...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Cheney for President? | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

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