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...appeared awestruck, it was not over this anatomical breakthrough but over my father's choice of props. It occurred to me that never before had any father pressed into service a garden hose to demonstrate the act of sexual intercourse. Not birds and bees. Not mating wolves. Not oak trees and acorns. The two ends of a rubber hose. Only...
...volunteers from the Baptist Church had come by earlier in the day and cut down the battered, ancient oak tree that had shaded her backyard. It had fallen, ripped up by the winds like a weed. A small sign in the yard remained in place: "She who plants a garden, plants happiness." Her barbecue and garden shed had stayed put. Francis laughs but not heartily...
...applications.Sanford Kreisberg, an admissions consultant who runs the consulting blog hbsguru.com and gave mock interviews to a number of 2+2 candidates, praised the effort by the MBA admissions office to appeal to younger students who might otherwise have considered different academic paths.“Leopold deserves an oak cluster on her 25-year service pin for dreaming up 2+2,” Kreisberg said. “This campaign has probably pre-empted 20 kids from going to Yale Law School and 40 or more from going to Stanford Business School, HBS’s biggest competitor...
...husband, my daughter and I are back in my hometown for my brother's wedding. It was supposed to be a grand one, with dinner and dancing under a canopy of old oak trees in Brazoria County. But the county's been evacuated, and the bride's parents have fled to Hempstead, a small town northwest of Houston. The three of us decided to ride out the storm in downtown Houston with my parents in their sixth floor apartment...
...husband, my 4-year-old daughter and I are back in my hometown from the Midwest for my brother's wedding. It was supposed to be a grand one, with dinner and dancing under a canopy of old oak trees in Brazoria County. But the county's been evacuated, and the bride's parents have fled to Hempstead, a small town northwest of Houston. The three of us are going to ride out the storm in downtown Houston with my parents...