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Life changes when you're no longer tested on your summer reading. You have the freedom to pause mid-chapter for a two-hour dip in the pool.

As the granddaughter of one of the first female priests in the Episcopal Church, the Rev.

Altadena, CA, July 2, 2009 /Cambridge Who's Who/ -- Geraldine A. Fiss, Ph.D., Graduate of Harvard University, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for showing dedication, leadership and excellence.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently appointed Farah Pandith as Special Representative to Muslim Communities, a new position within the State Department.

The unique nature of college friendships -- and what happens to those relationships after we go out into the "real world" -- is the subject of J. Courtney Sullivan's first novel, "Commencement" . The book received very strong reviews prior to publication last week and appears poised to be one of this summer's prime beach books.

The Westborough Community Land Trust awarded former state Sen. Pamela P. Resor the Pepper Award, which recognizes outstanding work in land conservation and preservation and advancing the WCLT mission.

THE SCOTTISH Parliament will mark a decade of devolution on July 1. The date will mark 10 years since the Parliament was officially opened by Her Majesty The Queen.

These films were commissioned beginning in 1967 through the mid-1970s using a $20 million grant from the NSF as part of a push to close a perceived scientific gap between the US and the former Soviet Union.

Courtney Sullivan's first novel, "Commencement'' , is garnering rave reviews, and she's getting queries from Hollywood.

Deborah O'Malley is a longtime Worcester resident who's worked as a program administrator at the UMass Medical School, as a lawyer at the law firm of Bowditch & Dewey LLP and at Light Tower Wireless in Boxborough.

We're in the midst of graduation season in Central New York, as high school students take the next step.

The Philadelphia Orchestra Association has named Katherine Blodgett vice president for public relations and communications, it was announced today by Association Executive Director and CEO Frank Slattery.

I claim no objectivity on this one folks--J. Courtney Sullivan and I are co-editing an anthology on the moments that made young women feminists and I think she's a lovely genius.

Walking around Berlin some years ago, artist Susan Hiller saw the street sign above her: It read Judenstrasse, or Jews' Street.

Literati packed into Gail Collins 's shabby-chic Morningside Heights apartment on the evening on Wednesday, June 17 to celebrate the launch of J. Courtney Sullivan 's debut novel, Commencement , set largely at the author's alma mater, Smith College.

Sean Freeman graduated from Sturgeon Bay High School this year and will attend McNally Smith College of Music, Minneapolis, in two years.

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John Sielski and his partner, Jim Dozmati, have fallen on hard times. The owners of the venerable Green Street Cafe, a longtime favorite in this lively western Massachusetts city, they have remortgaged their house and sold off an adjacent piece of property, given up their private health insurance and signed onto the state plan, and slashed their ...

UNION : Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Hawes of Union announced the engagement of their daughter, Jana Irene to Michael David Anderson, son of Mr.

I know summer doesn't officially begin until next week, but free time is over already, the whistle is blowing, and everyone out of the pool.