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Author: Kevin Donahue
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It’s no secret that it’s been a tough school year for Kelly, who has been struggling with migraines since October. So it was nice last week when he completed a grueling week of midterms without missing a day of school. And on Friday, he got some more good news: he was accepted at Temple University.…
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Noted physicist Stephen Hawking turns 73 on Thursday. He’s lived with something very similar to Lou Gehrig’s Disease for 41 years; the average victim is dead within 14 months. It is a cruel and relentless malady. And yet, here he is, mind still sharp, world famous despite all he’s had to overcome. He’s written a…
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Stuart Scott is dead. That is sad, and everything I’ve seen and read about him is that he was a talented broadcaster, a demanding colleague, a loving father. And having spent his professional life chronicling sports, it’s not surprising that the metaphors that came most easily to those reporting on his longtime struggle with cancer became…
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One of the great things about my job is the completely out-of-leftfield meetings we have with international franchisees. Last month, I met two people (a female publisher and male editor) for the Mongolian edition of Men’s Health, which launches early in 2015. I learned a bunch of things—much of it related to the country’s digital…
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It starts with a call. The frogmen in their frogmen suits. One lifts his head from the water to say, “Got something.” You birth him, raise him, praise him, berate him. You place inside him your hope and dreams, And then, one day you awake to find he’s not in his bed after a night…
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I saw Foxcatcher last night and, I have to say, it left me feeling confused and unsatisfied. I remember the events that the film depicts. Heck, I was working for the local city tabloid, the Philadelphia Daily News, at the time and we covered the story in all its tragic, inglorious loopiness, from start to finish…
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I tend to read in my car—audiobooks, that is, though my eyes are getting bad enough that it probably wouldn’t matter a whole lot if I actually read while driving. And I “read” a pretty fair amount, about a book each month. In fact, I consumed exactly 12 in 2014. Here’s what I thought of…
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Virginia sent cookies and tea to Aunt Doris in Columbus, Ohio. This is the email we received today (minor editing): We just finished lunch and dessert. The Kenyon tea is delicious and the mango flavor is good. I sampled 4 of the collection. Cinnamon were tops so far, close second were spice w/raisin frosting, unusual…
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I want to be a little old man. Concentrated, reduced, Like a sauce my wife cooks up on the kitchen stove. Many things go in, heat is applied, and what is left is less And more. There was a time in life when I was many things— Expansive and full of multitudes. I’m less than…
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My sons have played in a high school rec basketball league for the past 6 years or so, I guess—Pete played 2, Kelly has played 4 now. I coached Pete’s last season and all of Kelly’s. Coaching is a funny term, because there are no plays. The kids really don’t much listen to you. With…
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