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Aaron Goodman's evocative illustration for Kadlec's essay--a picture of a forlorn citizen adrift in a rowboat and desperately seeking help--was inaccurate in one respect. Most of us don't even have the benefit of a paddle. ROBERT L. WOLKE Pittsburgh...
Cornelius and Washington, who are "between 55 and 65," dated through high school in Pittsburgh, Pa., and long distance in college. They loved each other, but he stayed put and she moved to Providence, R.I. "We went in different directions," Washington explains. "The distance was the major reason...
They each married. After nearly three decades, Cornelius was divorced about the same time Washington was widowed. Cornelius, a psychologist living in Minneapolis, was thinking of moving back East. She called several old friends, including Washington, a lawyer, still in Pittsburgh. "I thought," he recalls, "if I ever get to Minneapolis, I'll get in touch." A law meeting brought him there in 1990, and sparks flew. Each was amazed at how unchanged the other seemed. He told her, "You know, I have always loved you." She was hooked. They visited each other on weekends. The distance no longer seemed...
...Harvard, most Mormons here have taken a relatively more liberal or unconventional path than most college-age Mormons. Perhaps none so unconventional as that of Davidson, who did not convert to the religion until the summer after she graduated from high school. Davidson is from Butler, Pa., near Pittsburgh, and was raised in a Presbyterian home. She was crowned America’s Junior Miss in 1998 and, as a result, participated in a community service program in Hawaii. Davidson remembers that the leader of her program leader was a Mormon, and Davidson was intrigued by the woman?...
They will be cheering for Drew Bledsoe, the three-time Pro Bowler who suffered a major injury in the second game of the season but remained a class act throughout the entire year. When he was called off the bench two weeks ago in Pittsburgh, Bledsoe played as if he’d never been gone, securing the Patriots the AFC championship...