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...visit, she takes her own advice and snatches a small pleasure out of a potentially prickly situation: she fixes us iced tea and scones. Sitting in the living room of her comfortable brick house in a middle-class Washington suburb without a touch of wretched excess from her newfound wealth, she readily agrees to show me where she writes her first drafts, even though it's in bed. And anticipating my next line of questioning, she offers that indeed money does make some things easier and is a great blessing but that money "doesn't protect you from life...
...didn't rely solely on the backlash against the incumbents. Like Bill Clinton or Tony Blair with a Spanish accent, he ran a slick multimedia campaign that moved his party toward the center and reassured Mexico City's middle class that he would do nothing to interfere with its newfound prosperity. Asked after the election whether he still advocated renegotiation of the NAFTA treaty and renationalization of privatized firms, Cardenas answered that "investors shouldn't worry too much about me, because the mayor has little to do with national economic policy...
Religious lore is full of men and women whose hearts turn spontaneously toward God--legions of Pauls thrown to the ground by the power of newfound faith. But in the real world, souls have always been won retail, at tent revivals and by door-to-door evangelists. The state of the art in missionary work today is "church planting," the grafting of new congregations--often immigrant or ethnic ones--onto existing churches. No city's religious establishment has pursued church planting more passionately than St. Louis'. But the city's church-planting story carries an ambivalent message: while the outreach...
...shares, because of the legal uncertainties. Many analysts expect the stocks to keep on chugging once Wall Street can reliably calculate the settlement costs. "As uncertainty is removed, the stocks move up," says Roy Burry, tobacco analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. Investors may be willing to pay up for the newfound safety of predictable, if lower, earnings...
Honig says she is "uneasy" with her newfound role as a symbol for the fight for more tenured female faculty at Harvard...