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...sophomore year, Johnson was attending mass daily and receiving weekly counseling from a spiritual director at St. John's. She also went on her first Nun Run, a weekend field trip to a local convent. At that point, her parents realized Johnson's discernment was not just a passing phase. Her father, Len, took it the hardest. "I was initially very upset by Katharine's discernment," says Len, a manager at a power plant in Joliet, Ill. "I always had visions of her being a wife and a mother, but especially a mother because of how good she is with...
...Spanish crown, whose present-day descendants are fiercely proud of their heritage and the modern metropolis they developed. Monterrey is the most important business center in the country after Mexico City. It's as if San Antonio, Texas, went on to become Pittsburgh, Pa., skipping the Rust Belt phase. This city of nearly 4 million, often confused by Americans with its California namesake, is, after all, still in its ascendancy, and--like Texas, its closest American kin--it has tall ambitions that may prove critical to how Mexico as a whole develops. Or maybe...
...action at Christie's and at Sotheby's the night before, where sales of Impressionist and modern art totaled $238 million, seemed to confirm that the market has reached another bubble phase. It's reminiscent of the bubble that inflated in the '80s, when dealmakers such as Australia's Alan Bond and yen jillionaires like Ryoei Saito chased Van Goghs to the stratosphere. (Saito paid $82.5 million for Portrait of Dr. Gachet.) Dotcom entrepreneurs with Internet funny money bought Impressionists and Pop Art. Today a new generation of hedge-fund billionaires and Chinese and Russian kleptocrats is part...
...Phase three is the climax, when the assumer reveals her ultimate disgust for the President and his cohorts (a.k.a. conservatives). Tip offs during this final phase are almost unlimited and include references to the Patriot Act, Guantanamo Bay, Laura Bush, and library books...
Proposed response to phase three: chime in (ironically) that you can’t believe that this maniacal, lying, murdering President, who is ruining America’s legacy abroad, has yet to be impeached. Finish with a nod to the trials and tribulations of being a liberal in today’s society. Your irony will undoubtedly be lost on the assumer, but at least you’ll get a laugh out of the experience...