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...lose weight, low carbs will go the way of low fat: a strategy that works when you stick to the rules but fails when marketers rush in with promises no one can keep. --With reporting by Julie Rawe, Alice Park and Daren Fonda/New York; Wendy Cole/Chicago; Jeanne DeQuine/Miami; Rita Healy/Denver; Marc Hequet/St. Paul; Hilary Hylton/Austin; Laura A. Locke/San Francisco; and Sean Scully/Los Angeles
...Rita Healy...
...they're happening in the corner of his eye, just beyond the spectrum of the visible. His son Jack is barely keeping the company together. His daughter Theresa is fighting non-Hodgkins lymphoma. His dad is in a nursing home and miserable there. His last girlfriend, the foxy Rita, left him a year ago, and he's not quite as over it as he'd like to think. Nor, come to think of it, has he ever really dealt with the madness and accidental (or maybe not) death of his wife Daisy...
...Basically, Professor Vendler is a monumental figure,” Miller says. “It has been said that she has the power to make or break poets’ careers.” Vendler’s invaluable contributions to the careers of contemporary poets Rita Dove and Seamus Heaney are evidence of this. She acknowledges that it is impossible to compare Yeats, one of the monolithic figures of the last two centuries of western literature, to modern poets...
...post-9/11 leadership. But the reaction from some families of 9/11 victims has been decidedly negative and very public. "The idea that President Bush would rally support around his campaign using our loved ones in a way that is so shameful is hard for me to believe," Rita Lasar, who lost a brother, told the Washington Post. "For the most part," said another relative, Kelly Campbell, "9/11 families are very sensitive to someone using the images of our loved one's death for their own ends...