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More than 19 million people tuned in to watch the final episode of “Game of Thrones” May 19, making it the most viewed show to ever air on HBO.
Yet many were dissatisfied with …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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6/5/19
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Wife Returned After Having Fine Funeral.”
The headline of a 483-word story in the March 15, 1904 edition of The New York Times bore a sly nod to Tom Sawyer. A man named Ignacio …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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5/22/19
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W
hen Pope Francis talks about evangelization, his poster child may well be an immigrant in North Dakota.
Sister Brenda Hernandez Valdes, a 34-year-old Daughter of Immaculate Mary of Guadalupe, …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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4/11/19
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When David Brooks travels the country, he seeks out the good news. The bad news is all too easy to find.
As a New York Times columnist writing about the social sciences, Brooks logs many miles for …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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3/13/19
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All afternoon I had been hunkered over my MacBook, perched above a frozen lake …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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2/13/19
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I’ve always appreciated the notion of self-care in an Oprah Winfrey, hot-baths-and-expensive-chocolates kind of way. We work so hard, the thinking goes, that we deserve a break here and there. So …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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1/2/19
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It all started with a lost birth certificate. The Holy Spirit was at work that day and hasn’t slowed down since.
My aunt Jan has always known she was adopted, and the many mysteries surrounding …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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12/5/18
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Roxanne Loper was almost home.
Her journey had begun 15 months earlier when she spotted a picture of a baby girl on the World Partners website and sensed something special.
She and her husband, …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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11/7/18
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I’ve been emailing my friend Becky, a newspaper editor in South Dakota, about our growing desire to unplug. We used to compare notes on …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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8/29/18
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Janet Easter is experiencing Braxton Hicks contractions as she arranges a bouquet in her backyard, and she is unfazed.
“I’m having contractions, which is hilarious,” she says, stripping …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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8/1/18
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The numbers don’t look good for the U.S. Postal Service. Last year it reported its sixth straight annual operating loss, in the amount of $2.7 billion. During fiscal year 2017, the USPS delivered …
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CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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7/4/18
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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
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6/7/18
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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
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5/10/18
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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
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4/12/18
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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
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3/1/18
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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
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2/1/18
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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
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1/4/18
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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
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12/7/17
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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
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11/9/17
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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
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10/12/17
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