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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...
...woman makes herself sexually available, a lot of people say, ‘Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free...
...occasional spells. And thick limbs? She turned out an ankle—still slim! Pendulous breasts? She jiggled her creamy shoulders in the mirror and was rewarded by the full bounce of the still smooth baubles within her bodice. Overripe? Not even! She remained a desirable woman, Felicity decided. She went to the stables, looking for proof.***Later, afterwards, Felicity found that the total satisfaction of her physical needs had not silenced the gnawing whine in the back of her head. She ran her fingers nervously through The Stable Boy’s hair.“Something troubles...
...fire and its spread raised fears about electoral hanky-panky and led some voters to cast more than one ballot. In the early 20th century, a compromised police force and city administration allowed organized crime to thrive. Even the city's first commissioner of public welfare, a woman named Louise Rowe, had to resign within a year of her appointment in 1915 after running a kickback scheme in the welfare department...
...scheduled multi-party elections in 2010. The polls are considered a charade by many international observers, who note that the leader of the main opposition party, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, is under house arrest and is barred from participating. But even after locking up a woman whose National League for Democracy won the 1990 elections that the junta then ignored, Burma's ruling brass still appears spooked by the power of the people. "Burma's leaders are clearing the decks of political activists," says Pearson, "before they announce the next round of sham political reforms." Overall...