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...family members urged her to have an abortion, but she resisted, figuring it wasn't her baby's fault that she hadn't used birth control. Things didn't work out with her boyfriend, so he started making calls to find her a place to live and came upon Our Lady's Inn, a St. Louis maternity home. Schutte was 8 1/2 months along and terrified when she moved in, figuring that she had landed in what amounted to a homeless shelter. But the inn gave her classes in child development and taught her how to feed a baby, when...
...hero's birth and impromptu, painfully comic circumcision. What matters here is the casting of the two--sorry, six--leads. Steve Coogan, the Brit comic best known for incarnating Alan Partridge, a suavely unknowing TV host, plays four roles: Tristram, his father, Sterne and a put-upon egomaniac star named Steve Coogan. Rob Brydon, who has worked often with Coogan, plays Tristram's Uncle Toby and "Rob Brydon." Much of the film's grace and brass come from their comic kinship, as when they compare Pacino impressions, or discuss the exact shade of Toby's teeth. Brydon suggests "not white...
...anybody in your company so patient, so persistent, so willing to sit in interminable negotiations for hour upon hour that he would be worthy of the nickname Iron Ass? If so, send him to China; it may be where he belongs. That is one of the enormous number of practical lessons large and small to be gleaned from James McGregor's new book, One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China. McGregor is a rare breed: an extraordinarily capable journalist--he was the Wall Street Journal's Beijing bureau chief from...
...skepticism at discovering someone her age was engaged to be married. “I think the main problem is that uncertainty is scary, and leaving college and going out on your own is scary, too,” she wrote. “It would be nice, upon graduation, to have somebody to go with you, find a crappy apartment with you, open a bank account with you, and spend Saturday night in a strange city with...
...Kleinschmidt’s chosen pursuit—outdoor education—is a far throw from the more secure trajectories upon which most Harvard graduates embark. Forgoing creature comforts and even modest financial security, she has instead opted for an off-road foray into the wilderness, where she hopes to hone an unconventional skill set before settling upon a more permanent route...