Word: madison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intriguing as such musings are, theories are made flesh outside of laboratories. A persuasive anecdotal demonstration is occurring in a spotless apartment on the struggling South Side of Madison, Wis., where a graduate student named Paul Cardis is revisiting a former insurance processor named Delilah Bell. Five years ago, Bell's fiance died of drug- and alcohol-related pneumonia, leaving her to raise their four children alone. To Bell, his death was worse than needless. It was a betrayal, and alternating bouts of anger and despair reduced her to a state close to paralysis. "I would talk to my mother...
...ended up being not clinically depressed and retained that over 14 months." He and his students have also applied his forgiveness "intervention" to elderly parents angry at distant children and men hurt by the abortion decision of a partner. His latest project is with sex offenders in a Madison mental-health facility. Enright feels that by helping them forgive the abusers in their own past, he may awaken empathy for their victims and decrease their recidivism...
...didn't actually watch the fight because I no longer patronize boxing. The last fight I watched was in 1996, when I went to Madison Square Garden to see Riddick Bowe, a black American, fight Andrew Golota, who is a plumber in Poland. Early on, in a moment I can't really explain, I told my friend that it would be "fun to sit with the Polish people." For the next half hour we sang Polish songs and chanted Polish chants. Nationalism is a blast, even if it's not your own country...
Geno Carlisle's three-point play with 4.7 seconds capped yet another Cal comeback and lifted the Golden Bears a 61-60 victory over Clemson at Madison Square Garden...
...same can be said for charity work. Susan Riker Dolan, 41, a former nurse turned attorney, began volunteering at a hospice in Madison, Wis., in 1995. She started spending four hours a week comforting dying patients and their families. When she married and moved to her current home of Park Ridge, Ill., Dolan continued her volunteer work. She began spending time with hospice administrators, lunching with the executive director and assisting the group with volunteer training. Eventually she signed on as a marketing and promotions manager. "I can't wait to go to work each day," Dolan says. "I guess...