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...night of the event on April 17, Alex and her family attended a T.G.I. Friday's near her hometown of Warren. Some of the restaurants reported higher than usual attendance for a Tuesday night. One mother of a 17-year-old autistic boy came up to thank Alex and then burst into tears telling her how wonderful it was to be able to go out to a restaurant with her son and not have people make comments. She told Alex she would never forget that evening...
...wonder that last week, central banks - like a frazzled mother jamming a pacifier into a wailing infant's mouth - rushed in to try to calm the incipient panic, shoving $300 billion of fresh cash into the credit markets to make sure they didn't seize up entirely. (The Bank of Japan and the eurozone's European Central Bank both pumped in additional funds on Monday.) For the moment, the moves had their intended effects: following minimal losses in New York on Friday, Asian and European bourses on Monday traded mostly higher. Knowing now that central banks are willing to step...
...right-wing nut job, the outdoor market seems to feature more ickily butchered animals than it does flowers and vegetables, and the house Delpy's Marion and her American lover Jack (Adam Goldberg) shack up in belongs to her deranged parents (played by Delpy's own mother and father). It smells bad and has leaky plumbing...
...kids. I rode my bike to the swimming hole and swung from a rope to drop into the lake. In short: I led the ideal boy's life. My dad's mentoring and fun-loving spirit made my childhood beautiful. He made me a better person and a better mother to my own two daughters. Lisa Lippitz, Bourbonnais, Illinois...
...walk on the beach one day in 1985 with their eldest son. George W. Bush said that encounter put him on a path to a new relationship with Jesus and "planted a mustard seed" in his soul. But a few years later, he got into an argument with his mother about who exactly could and could not get into heaven. Bush maintained that only born-again Christians were eligible for entrance, as he had been learning in his Bible study; Barbara Bush disagreed and telephoned Graham to let him settle the matter. The evangelist said that while the younger Bush...