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...daughter listed and win than to be shortlisted for it myself. I would have been more unhappy than her had she not won." Accepting the prize for her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran thanked her mother, whose committed support during the eight years it took to write the book even led Kiran to describe Anita as its "co-author"?although her mother, like any proud parent, demurs. "I don't know why she keeps talking about me," says Anita...
...Congratulations on your overwhelming and inspiring primary win," the doctor wrote. "I was happy to vote for you, and I will tell you that I am seriously considering voting for you in the general election. I write to express my concerns that may, in the end, prevent me from supporting...
...Darwin romps freely around the cubicleless San Francisco office. Like YouTube, Yelp.com was started by two former PayPal whizzes in their 20s. Last month 1.5 million people visited their fledgling site to share information about local businesses in 25 major cities. Volunteer reviewers, or Yelpers, read and write about restaurants, stores and services. Yelp's founders say they were inspired by their frustration in trying to find good doctor recommendations online. Their idea was to improve on existing tools like Citysearch, which Yelp's founders call...
...Larimers' hometown of Henderson (pop. 250,000), there have been two fatalities, but only one teen has been ticketed for violating the driving curfew, and not one has been nabbed for illegally carting around friends. Police admit that they are more likely to call parents than write up a violation, believing that a more informal approach is as much a deterrent as sending the family through the court system...
...think of the Lutheran student from the Midwest who found that the rationalism of the Dalai Lama opened to her a world of thought that was not only challenging, but compelling. I think of the student who wanted to write her term paper on women’s issues in Islam and discovered the breadth and power of Muslim feminist writers she didn’t know existed, the Muslim student who discovered the writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel, and the atheist who found that Buddhist philosophers didn’t “believe in God” either...