Word: reconnections
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...realize that I was gay, years more to tell others and more time yet to form any kind of stable emotional bond with another man. Because my sexuality had emerged in solitude--and without any link to the idea of an actual relationship--it was hard later to reconnect sex to love and self-esteem. It still is. But I persevered, each relationship slowly growing longer than the last, learning in my 20s and 30s what my straight friends had found out in their teens. But even then my parents and friends never asked the question they would have asked...
...Paris, but rather at the edges: the old industrial quarter along the Seine in the 13th is already under development, and other sites along railroad concentrations in the north and northeast of Paris would be prime candidates. Some architects have argued that well-planned high-rises can help reconnect Paris to its suburbs, now cut off by the belt highway around the city proper. "Of course Parisians say they're against new tall buildings when the question is posed in the abstract," says Jean-Pierre Caffet, the deputy mayor for urban development. But he hopes that minds will change when...
...interest in marketing, Bell has already helped freshen McDonald's image. He worked on the global "I'm lovin' it" ad campaign, and has pushed U.S. restaurants to revise their traditional menu in favor of more edgy offerings like premium salads and the new McGriddles. Bell's goals: "To reconnect with customers all around the world and keep the brand forever young." The approach may be working: McDonald's share price has doubled since hitting an eight-year low in March. --By Maggie Sieger/Chicago
...keep Yeats; The Poems next to my pillow and have a Field Guide to Irish Faeries on my shelf. This does not make much sense to most of my fellow Americans abroad—all hardworking, motivated students—who came here for the Guinness and to reconnect with their Irish roots...
...thousands of Radcliffe alums return to Cambridge this week to reconnect with classmates and revisit the site of their college years, the group that represents them will be entering its final days...