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Most divorcing couples are hardly in the mood to stand up together in church and make new vows. But a growing number are finding that a divorce ceremony can bring closure and even comfort at the end of a marriage. Barbara and Phil Penningroth divorced in 1997 after 25 years of marriage and held a divorce ceremony featuring filmed highlights of their life together and poems by Robert Browning. The Penningroths found the ritual so meaningful that they co-wrote A Healing Divorce: Transforming the End of Your Relationship with Ritual and Ceremony (1st Books). Phil believes that in this...
...makes sense to turn to its premier line - cars that don't sell in huge numbers but have high prices and wide margins - to more than compensate. "Only with premium brands can you make margins of around 8%" in an industry where the average is 3% to 4%, says Phil Dunne, auto consultant at A.T. Kearney in London...
...Coleman, speaking for the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calls the study's results "flat-out wrong," according to the Associated Press. To achieve the numbers presented in the CASA report, Coleman claims, every American teenager who drinks would be obliged to consume 120 drinks per month. Phil Lynch, representing Jack Daniels Whiskey, was more blunt with the AP. "It looks like CASA has adopted Enron's accounting practices...
...Amendment rights, to say nothing about al-Arian's being a tenured professor. When self-righteous citizens like the university president who dismissed al-Arian disregard the law and ignore the Constitution because they disagree with an individual's opinion, they become the very terrorists they profess to abhor. PHIL WILT Van Nuys, Calif...
...combined, the dashing alpinist from Franconia, N.H., Bode Miller, had bounced off his butt in the downhill portion and then messed up his first slalom run pretty good. With a single chance left, he found himself well and truly buried. Then he cranked the most sensational slalom run since Phil Mahre and Alberto Tomba hung 'em up, and wound up with silver. Sportswriters, who are metaphor lovers beyond the pale, likened Miller's charge to scoring five touchdowns in the fourth quarter, or hitting two grand slams in a massive ninth-inning rally. Sportswriters enjoy hyperbole only slightly less than...