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...book after book. The Daughters of Joy is no exception. Unlike Chopra's previous novel Soulmate, which dwelt at length on specifically Eastern ideas like karma and reincarnation, Daughters focuses on a figure long popular in Western myth and legend, and among contemporary New Agers as well: the Wise Woman. Its slim plot revolves around Jess Conover, a young reporter at a Boston newspaper. Confused, adrift and emotionally anemic, Jess stumbles, seemingly by chance, on a classified ad in a newspaper: "Love has found you. Tell no one. Just come." Could the message somehow be intended for him? Chopra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Age Supersage | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...Ptolemy Tompkins' recent books include The Beaten Path: Field Notes on Getting Wise in a Wisdom-Crazy World and Paradise Fever: Growing Up in the Shadow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Age Supersage | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...Spoken Word The British Library culled its archives for recordings of famous authors, with astounding results. A jovial, elderly J.R.R. Tolkien! A wise, patrician Virginia Woolf! And Ian Fleming interviewing Raymond Chandler, who sounds more pickled than hard-boiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short List | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

Senior guards Andrew Pusar and Drew Housman were the Crimson’s best three-point shooters percentage-wise a year ago, while junior guard Dan McGeary made and attempted the most three-pointers on the team...

Author: By Thomas D. Hutchison, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '08 SUPPLEMENT: 3-Point Line | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...guys won’t even probably attempt them now,” McGeary says. “But I think for guards and guys who shoot a lot of three-pointers, I don’t think it’s going to make a big difference percentage-wise. Once you get into your rhythm a month in, you feel good about it. It?...

Author: By Thomas D. Hutchison, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '08 SUPPLEMENT: 3-Point Line | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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