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...summer business,” Kotelly said. Welcome agreed, “I hate to see what’s going to happen this summer.” She stressed that the customers ultimately make or break a business—leading Cardullo’s to post its plea. “It’s only out there to let the public know that their stores that they go to frequently are being affected, and to please make an extra effort to try to get to us,” she said...

Author: By Samantha F. Drago, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Construction Cramps Shops | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

...bones are all broken, but he still says gimme some money! He’s a New York wino, all right!”Even environmentalism fails to escape Handey’s pen. “Reintroducing Me to My Habitat” is a tongue-in-cheek plea to environmentalists to return the speaker to “the desert Southwest where I used to roam wild and free” because “for several years, I have been largely confined to a small two-bedroom apartment in the Chelsea section of Manhattan...

Author: By Meredith S. Steuer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Deep-ish Thoughts | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...Brown says the initial effort, a 60-second spot called "Victims" will be aired later this month in North Carolina and e-mailed to between 3 and 7 million conservatives this week, with a plea for more funding to further spread the message. "All of the efforts I have ever done in my life have been significantly funded," Brown claimed, though he declined to describe the size of the purchase. "This is going to be the most Internet-intensive effort for an ad debut ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Willie Horton Hit on Obama? | 4/22/2008 | See Source »

...aboard a sailing vessel into an equally nightmarish—but bestselling—memoir. He was a trailblazer of the productive-unproductive summer. The consummate Harvardian, he glimpsed the potential in his seemingly wasted time on ship, taking his diary and converting it to a popular narrative and plea for better shipboard conditions. After this shining example of literary advocacy, experiential learning, and cross-cultural exchange, you couldn’t just run off to sea anymore. You were expected to do something with it.Indeed, the idea that the only good summer is the productive summer is so ingrained...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Vacation? | 4/21/2008 | See Source »

Benedict's morning homily at the landmark 5th Avenue cathedral included a first-ever papal plea to repair damages from the ideological battles that followed the 1960s Second Vatican Council. "One of the great disappointments which followed the Second Vatican Council, with its call for a greater engagement in the Church's mission to the world, has been the experience of division between different groups, different generations, different members of the same religious family," he said. "We can only move forward if we turn our gaze together to Christ! In the light of faith, we will then discover the wisdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pope Benedict Yearning to Heal His Flock | 4/19/2008 | See Source »

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