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English has jettisoned some old-fashioned stuff, like the passage where Mary goes to Reno for her "quickie" divorce (there was, in those days, a six-week residency requirement). More important, she has given most of The Women's women jobs (notably Annette Bening's Sylvie, a hard-pressed magazine editor). She seems to want to convert her version of the play into a tract for our times; you know, something about the difficulties of having a family and a career simultaneously...
...Crimson to within two points of its opponent at 24-22. Their rally was cut short, though, by a Herthington kill, which ended the set at 25-22. “In practice we’re going to focus on being aggressive and worrying less about the small stuff,” Kocurek said. “Bigger picture stuff—more competitive drills as opposed technicalities.” The women’s squad continues its season at home this weekend in Lavietes Pavilion, where it will face off against American University in the first round...
...very entertaining, and the educational stuff goes down with only the faintest academic aftertaste. (David Levithan, executive editorial director at Scholastic and a young-adult author himself, calls The 39 Clues "subversively educational," by which he presumably means that kids won't notice they're learning, not that the books actually subvert any societal norms.) "It's very much about family dynamics," Levithan says. "That's the heart of it. The most relatable factor about it is that every kid thinks their family is just really strange and large and weird. The idea that you can be born into this...
...Moments after encouraging the faithful at her old Pentecostal church to pray for pipeline revenue, she proved her pastor right: “I can do my job [in Anchorage] in developing our natural resources, doing things like getting the roads paved…but really all of that stuff doesn’t do any good if the people of Alaska’s heart isn’t right with God. And that’s gonna be your job…to be out there reaching the people and converting the people of Alaska...
...speeches can still have the pacing of a stand-up comedy routine. "Obama got his speech, according to the media, on two tablets of stone, postmarked Mt. Sinai," he jokes one minute. "My dad used to say, 'Son, don't look so far up your family tree. There is stuff up there you don't need to see,' " he deadpans the next...