Word: soups
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This past year, says, the network has also incorporated more original programming, developing shows such as "Chicken Soup for the Soul," a feel-good anthology series based on the book series by the same name, and "Twice in a Lifetime," a fantasy drama that allows its characters to go back in time and change one decision that set their lives on its course...
JACK OHMAN, The Oregonian I like drawing Dan Quayle because I think he looks like a Furby or one of the Campbell's soup kids, and frankly some of the other people out in politics today look like Mr. Potato Heads. Everybody is so bland looking. Those are the kinds of people that drive you crazy. My idea of hell would be having to draw George W. Bush for eight years...
...half as warm if two people shared it. Since a Harvard education should be a resource more like a fire than an apple, it is good to hear many students planning to share it by entering "public service" in one of three forms: financial contribution (apolitical donations to soup kitchens or inner-city programs), political office and direct service provision involving daily and face-to-face contact with clients. Overwhelmingly, however, Harvard students prefer the first two forms of public service and neglect the third kind. This is dangerous. Consider these analogies...
...FORTUNE 500 corporation, a university or a foundation. The publisher of his best-selling autobiography, My American Journey, is begging him to write another. The crate of mail he gets each day is heavy with offers. My favorite is an offer to make a quick million by penning Chicken Soup for the Black Soul...
...assures me he won't be turning out an instant chicken-soup book or throwing his name into the presidential or vice-presidential ring. What Powell chooses to do instead is continue to run America's Promise, his "crusade" to enlist corporations, government, nonprofit organizations and millions of citizens into giving every child at risk five things: an ongoing relationship with a caring adult, a safe place to go after school (most juveniles get in trouble between the hours of 3 and 8 p.m.), as well as a healthy start, a marketable skill and a chance to serve others...