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...Meryl Steep is an absolutely remarkable woman," O'Leary says. "She came having learned little about rowing, but it wasn't so much that I had to teach her. Her business is learning to imitate, whether it's an accent or a technique. She sees...
There was also a motive for murder: money. Bank documents seized by police showed evidence of squabbling within the sect about finances. New members were charged steep initiation fees and required to sign away their assets. The sect / acquired farms and lavish houses in Geneva, southern France and Quebec. A disaffected former follower, Rose Marie Klaus, told a Quebec newspaper last year that she and her husband had given nearly $500,000 to Jouret and never saw it again. Giacobino, the owner of the farm in Cheiry, was heard complaining to friends about Di Mambro's free-spending ways...
...paperback edition, the Catechism of the Catholic Church has been experiencing popularity among Catholic and non-Catholic readers alike. It's a kind of owner's manual for those who call the Catholic faith their own, a definitive statement of Catholic belief. At $19.95, some might say it's steep for a paperback; but it's worth every penny...
...women and children -- a combination considered vital by the delegates to Cairo. But Mohammed Zakaria, undersecretary for health affairs in Sinnuris, says he must also meet birth-control targets set each year (an approach deemed ineffective in the Cairo plan) and that after a second child, families must pay steep fees for hospital delivery (a disincentive generally frowned on as coercive). In general, women like Sohad Ahmad are limiting the number of their children not because of any economic or political empowerment but because of economic hardship...
...group encountered Pan Pipe and Gourmet John and Wandering Jew II, thru-hikers trekking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. These were the more pleasant evenings. On one occasion, our FOP group had the less pleasant experience of sleeping under a plastic tarp set up on a steep hillside so that all eleven group members were hugging each other. Group bonding at its best...