Word: nines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Halftime: Stats! Wright leads all scorers with 11 and Housman is second with 8. Harvard has nine assists against 8 turnovers. Votel and Bernardini have 6 each for Penn. Both teams shooting poorly, with Penn 9-of-29 and Harvard 11-of-27. Rebounds about even, with 18 for Quakers, 17 for Crimson. Second half soon...
...theories, however, just don’t seem to hold water. These reasons, albeit of noble sentiment, seem superfluous to survival, to the daily nine-to-five grind, to making the next mortgage payment. Can’t this all wait until the economy is back on its feet? Why is it important that we produce...
Monumental tragedies have a way of towering over a place, casting a shadow that dims both history and people. Former New Yorker staff writer Dan Baum's Nine Lives is a reminder of New Orleans as it existed before - and still exists in spite of - its darkest hour. After Hurricane Katrina, Baum conducted nearly 400 interviews with more than 200 subjects to recreate the experiences of nine New Orleanians, not only in the harrowing post-storm chaos of lawlessness and death, but in the four decades leading up to Katrina, starting with Hurricane Betsy in 1965. As the years roll...
With all that has been written about New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, few writers have been able to capture the essence of New Orleans as skillfully as Baum. Through exceptionally reported slices of life, Nine Lives reveals New Orleans as a vibrant, otherworldly land - a city in its own orbit. Beyond all the death, destruction and lives upended, one of the great jolts of the storm was that it forced a city that has always been somewhat out of step with the rest of American life to confront itself, in all its quirks and vulnerabilities. Baum's is a compassionate...
...read, "the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) is set to be signed if Congress passes it on January 21-22 of 2009. The FOCA is the next sick chapter in the book of abortion." The e-mail urged Catholics to say a novena - a devotion of dedicated prayer for nine successive days - beginning on Jan. 11 and ending the day prior to Inauguration Day. (See pictures of Pope Benedict XVI's trip to America...