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Want to escape the bad effects of an unhappy childhood this year? The controversial bestselling author and radio host says that if you're wearing a scarlet "V" for victim on your chest, you'll never outrun the past. "Unfortunately, much of the popular therapeutic view and pop psych mentality has functioned," says Schlessinger, "to keep people in self-pitying, victim mode mentality, robbing them of optimism, confidence, hope, growth and change." Instead, urges the author, strive to be a victor...
...star system won't vanish as long as there are bona fide market beaters like Bill Miller, whose Legg Mason Value Trust is on track to outrun the Standard & Poor's 500 for a 15th consecutive year. "But the industry is waking up to the scale problem that even stars have when a fund grows large," says Christine Benz, author of Morningstar Guide to Mutual Funds...
...played no favorites, inundating millionaire McMansions and modest homes alike. In the middle of an intersection sits an abandoned wheelchair, water lapping at the handlebars, its occupant carried who knows where by the floodwaters. Cars line another roadway, their doors open as if the drivers thought they could outrun the 20-ft. surges...
...alluded in general terms to an immense volunteer effort called the PEACE plan, aimed at transforming 400,000 churches in 47 nations into centers to nurse, feed and educate the poor and even turn them into entrepreneurs. Its details remain unknown, but its Rwandan element seems to have outrun the rest. Warren says he was "looking for a small country where we could actually work on a national model," and Kagame, impressed by The Purpose-Driven Life, volunteered Rwanda in March. In July Warren and 48 other American Evangelicals, who have backgrounds in areas like health, education, micro-enterprises...
...Open the envelope, Richard. Cannes is an art showcase that turns into a horse race. And like the Kentucky Derby, the overwhelming favorite can be outrun by a 50-to-1 shot. My long shot, also my favorite film, is Once You're Born, which juggles sentiment and cynicism about the great unknown - other people - without ever losing poise or focus. And it made me cry. So shoot me. Some would: Once You're Born was also the critical consensus for worst film of the festival. Earlier today, when Jury member Jacquot asked critics which film they would hate...