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...side-trip to find some Catholic traveling companions is necessary; in this case, I was told about the existence of a hold-out cove in nearby Dubrave. Arriving outside the supposed Franciscan monastery here, one can see a faint yellow line surrounding the area’s famed oak trees, denoting the presence of a mine field...
...Iowa. "But it's not Captain Underpants either." Beyond their gratitude at anything that gets kids to read, parents and teachers appreciate how Rowling doesn't pander or patronize. "Generally adults in children's literature are horrible or incompetent," observes Debbie Mitchell of the Magic Tree Book Store in Oak Park, Ill., while Rowling shows adults being wise and fair and, in the gamekeeper Hagrid, the best friend imaginable. Her tone can also grow dark and Grimm in ways that many contemporary children's fantasies don't. "Children's psyches are a lot more sophisticated than we give them credit...
Eugenia V. Levenson ’03 started dating Jamison Stoltz in her Oak Park, Ill. high school and has remained with him ever since, even though he attended college at New York University and studied abroad for a time while she was in Cambridge. “The fact that we’ve been able to do long distance is surprising to a lot of people, including ourselves,” she says. She says Stoltz’s proposal didn’t quite come as a surprise, as the two had discussed marriage before. One cold...
Mertz's success as an author came like a machine gun as well. Her talent surfaced early, while she was growing up in Oak Park, Ill. Called on to write a sonnet in high school, she produced something so professional that her teacher suspected her of plagiarism. When she took up writing again, after being inspired by Friedan's polemic, she wrote three books for which she couldn't find a publisher. With the fourth she was successful, and has remained so ever since. She turns out about one mystery a year, and tries to go to Egypt just...
...vice principal of an elementary school. The 21-year-old sees no problem going from drumming with his rock band by night to wiping little noses and teaching kids their colors and shapes by day. That said, he knows he's unusual. When parents walk into his preschool in Oak Park, Ill., and see a young man in baggy clothes, some "freak out," he says. But when their children clamber onto his back and call him Mr. A., the moms and dads come around. ("Isn't he adorable?" whispers a mother to a visitor.) The job pays Echevarria about...