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Obama Speech May Fall on Deaf Ears

Obama Speech May Fall on Deaf Ears

June 7, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
How many members in your family, your close family, the family that comes to birthday parties or Christmas Eve celebrations? Ten? Twenty? I bet it's fewer than 40. How about your friends - your close friends, the ones who call when you're sick, the ones who share vacations? How many? I bet it's fewer than 40.How about your church, your synagogue, your mosque - people you know there, you shake hands with, you well-wish? Twenty? Thirty? Again, fewer than 40, right?
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Recharged

Recharged

June 7, 2009 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
After every Red Wings' score, Pittsburgh goalie Marc-Andre Fleury has a habit of skating to the corner to try to get his anger out. Saturday night, there were a lot of quick trips. The Wings would score, Fleury would skate to the corner - and into a sea of Wings fans cheering and banging the glass. Finding no relief, he'd curl back to his net. He did this after the first, the second, the third and the fourth Detroit goals. Finally, after the fifth, he took a longer skate - all the way to his bench, clomping through the door, and headed down the tunnel, done for the night.
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Mitch Albom writes about running an orphanage in impoverished Port-au-Prince, Haiti, his kids, their hardships, laughs and challenges, and the life lessons he’s learned there every day.

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