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...sell her half-American daughter into slavery. And since Oprah has never been content with mere voyeurism, O is also a workbook wherein you can apply what you learn. Some pages have blank spaces for writing down the things you'd like to change about yourself or postcards with sage quotations that can be torn out along perforated lines and taped to the refrigerator...
Many an aspiring writer has heard the sage advice to "write what you know." It is evident that Cambridge native Mameve Medwed is doing just that in her latest novel, Host Family. She knows Cambridge well. Very well. So well, in fact, that she has laid out every detail of it for the reader. From the Loeb to Mr. Bartley's to Pennypacker to Brattle Street, nothing is left to the imagination. If you're looking for subtlety, Host Family is not the book...
That's more than sage advice; it's an order from a superior officer. So at 30--the age Beatty was when he produced and starred in Bonnie and Clyde--Norton has directed and starred in Keeping the Faith, a genially wistful romantic comedy about two guys and the girl they've always loved. If this old-fangled triangle about a priest (Norton), a rabbi (Ben Stiller) and a dynamic executive (Jenna Elfman) proves as popular as early previews suggest, it will give further credence to the belief that Norton is blessed. After just seven films, this Yale grad...
...Lawrence finally got on the board at 3:45 of the second when Stacy Boudrias put the puck past Springer, with the help of Nicole Kirnan and Kelly Sage. But that was all St. Lawrence could manage in the second, unable to capitalize on three Harvard penalties...
...With veteran status, Carlos considers himself a sage of the streets. He has picked up some wisdom along the way as well as countless intriguing stories. Over the years, he claims to have accepted fares from Harvard notables: Neil Rudenstine, Alan Dershowitz, Henry Louis "Skip" Gates and Stephen Jay Gould, and real-world gurus like George Will, a columnist for Newsweek. Carlos describes Rudenstine as "very humble, very down to earth," and Gates as "a real nice, fun guy, a Democrat." He recalls driving Gould to Logan airport, and having "a great conversation about creation versus evolution science...