Word: noonday
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...every 2 marriages ending in divorce, more than half of all American children have been part of a broken family. Books like Anthony E. Wolf's Why Did You Have to Get a Divorce? And When Can I Get a Hamster?: A Guide to Parenting through Divorce (Noonday) aim to help parents help their children through the ordeal. Wolf, a clinical psychologist who has worked with kids for almost 30 years, gives practical guidance for talking to children about tough issues. When, for example, is the right time to tell your son or daughter that you're getting a divorce...
Franzen and the others may benefit from Wallace's success. The Twenty-Seventh City, Franzen's deft social-science fiction about a former Bombay police chief who plots to take over St. Louis, Missouri, first published in 1988, was recently released in paperback (Noonday Press; 517 pages...
...sheltered from the realities of city life. Nonetheless, the administration and the police department must try harder. From most locations on campus, blue light emergency phones cannot be seen. We have repeatedly called for better lighting on campus. The intense bulbs that light up the Yard like the noonday sun during Commencement Week quickly disappear when the wealthy alumni and expensive chairs depart. House security guards are on duty from 5 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.--hardly the most dangerous times of night. In addition, guards sitting in isolated superintendents' offices--or even worse, at Tommy's House of Pizza...
Bertrand Russell argued that a universe under a death sentence from the second law of thermodynamics rendered human life ultimately futile. All our achievements, all our struggles, "all the noonday brightness of human genius," as he put it, would, in the final analysis, count for nothing if the very cosmos itself is doomed...
...most importantly, Tour Clones play well in the Masters only before Sunday, when the mad dogs and Englishmen (or) Welshmen, or Germans, or Spaniards) come out in the noonday sun to mop up the rest of the field...