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The big news from the Social Security Administration is the ousting of a champion: Liam has dethroned Noah as the nation’s most popular boy name. That was the headline of its newly released …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI |
6/6/18 10:00 PM
When Oprah Winfrey was first asked the question, the talk-show queen was left tongue-tied.
She was doing a live television interview with the late film critic Gene Siskel to promote her film …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI |
5/9/18 10:00 PM
Erica Tighe was 26 when she made the leap: She would set out on her own to be a calligrapher. Full time. In order to pay her $800 rent and cellphone bill and $1,000 college-loan payment and also …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI |
4/11/18 10:00 PM
Little did he know what a noble purpose awaited him when Don Ritchie settled into a house on Old South Head Road back in 1964. The former Navy seaman and retired salesman was eager to soak in the …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI |
2/28/18 10:00 PM
When it came time to interview prospective sailors for his expedition across Antarctica, Ernest Shackleton had clear-cut criteria. He had to pick the right men for his journey to the bottom of the …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI |
1/31/18 10:00 PM
The themes emerge predictably. When it comes to New Year’s resolutions, we gravitate toward the biggies: get healthy, get organized, get a life. We vow to travel more, read more, save more and …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI |
1/3/18 10:00 PM
Oprah Winfrey sings and claps when presented with the $69 lunch box that makes her 2017 “Favorite Things” list.
“I looooove!” she belts out in mock falsetto.
She doesn’t need to …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI |
12/6/17 10:00 PM
Even before she was married, Emily Stimpson Chapman asked for baby prayers.
“I’d be in an antique store buying little trinkets for the wedding decorations, and I would be asking strangers: …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI |
11/8/17 10:00 PM
Hurricane Harvey stranded Father David Bergeron in his pickup the night it ripped through Houston. The 38-year-old priest had been visiting his brother and had to pull over on an overpass three miles …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI |
10/11/17 10:00 PM
The rain fell heavy on a Monday morning in Des Moines, Iowa.
Bleary-eyed travelers plotted alternative routes over eggs and potatoes at the Embassy Suites.
A white-haired man wearing a Saturn …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI |
9/13/17 10:00 PM
Nicholas Owen was canonized 364 years after his death.
Such is often the case with the Catholic Church, charged with curating a 3,000-year treasure trove of saints and stories, rovers and …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI |
8/2/17 10:00 PM
The old man with the typewriter would like a word with us texters and tweeters: Don’t be a blockhead.
David McCullough’s bestselling new book, “The American Spirit,” takes up a cause he …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI |
7/5/17 10:00 PM
Art Cullen has his gripes about Catholicism, but he cannot deny its influence on the work that last month won him a Pulitzer Prize.
The story went viral: Small-town newspaper editor beats out the …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI |
5/10/17 10:00 PM
The place infants nod off and teens open up is also where road-weary adults will probe their spirituality: in the car.
That’s the secret behind a new religious community, the Little Poor Friars …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI |
4/12/17 10:00 PM
The old farmers used to say you should leave a field better than you found it. Sometimes that called for heavy lifting. Other times it just meant picking up a rock as you crossed and placing it at …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI |
3/1/17 10:00 PM
Spend a day in a surgery waiting room and you’ll witness a hundred quiet acts of mercy.
Strangers gather for a host of reasons with a common cause: to sit beneath the slowest clock and wait it …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI |
2/15/17 10:00 PM
Don Currey was a 30-year-old graduate student when he cut down the world’s oldest tree.
A brown-eyed, sun-tanned geography student at the University of North Carolina, Don was striking in his …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI |
1/4/17 10:00 PM
It’s almost as if November’s Mass readings were written for election-weary Catholics, with their foreboding tones and calls for “perseverance” and “endurance” amid …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI |
11/8/16 10:00 PM
When two 20-somethings slung a wire across rooftops in Boston, they were hoping to hear each other’s voices transmitted across that line. It worked, and they did, but in the process, they also …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI |
9/28/16 10:00 PM
The phone call came when I was boiling sweet corn—supper time on a hum-drum Sunday whose excitement peaked with a trip to the grocery store.
It had been months since I’d spoken with my …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI |
8/31/16 10:00 PM
