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When Sherre Hirsch, a Los Angeles rabbi, had adolescent woes about boyfriends or school, her grandmother used to repeat an old Yiddish saying: "We plan, God laughs." Hirsch, now 39 and the mother of three children, says, "I heard it all the time. I realized for me and for so many people, that was sort of the theme of their life. It just wasn't turning out like they expected. And in some ways they thought God was laughing at them." Now, Hirsch gives out her own brand of comforting advice, in her new book, called - what else? - We Plan...
...musical theater through singing. Growing up, Hill sang in school, but only began exploring musical theater after landing the lead role of Curly in his middle school production of “Oklahoma!” While Hill’s father grew up on Rodgers and Hammerstein, his mother was less enthused about musical theater. “My mother hated musicals. She thought they were stupid,” Hill says. “It wasn’t until she had children that she started liking musicals.” Starting in high school, Hill became serious...
...crept into his music. When he decided to pursue music as a career, Redman realized that it was time to fill the holes in his technique and started to buckle down. Until that point, Redman had been almost entirely self-taught. He grew up in Berkeley, Calif. with his mother, a dancer named Renee Shedroff. His father, though, was legendary jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman.Dewey was more a musical influence on Redman than a parental influence. Redman grew up listening to his records and seeing his father’s gigs when he played in San Francisco. When Redman decided...
...Uribe has made impressive progress with Colombia's security and economy. But there is scant contact between him and the FARC, which is far from vanquished. "I'm killing myself every day wondering why dialogue is so impossible for all sides in this tragedy," says Betancourt's mother Yolanda Pulecio. At least Betancourt is a cause celebre in France. In their jungle encampments, America's hostages in Colombia are not just out of sight; to all but their families and supporters, they seem to be out of mind too. With reporting by Sibylla Brodzinsky/Bogota and Bruce Crumley/Paris
...both Jews and wizards? He offers further corollaries: Harry's spells are talmudic prayers; Hizballah are the Death-eaters; converts to Judaism are muggle-born wizards; and so on. He breaks the news that I'm actually just a mudblood - a muggle, not a wizard, because my muggle mother had converted to Reform Judaism, not Orthodox. But I shouldn't despair, he says. There are good muggles and bad muggles, just as there are good and bad wizards. I could still play a (somewhat diminished) role in fighting evil...