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Barbara Byrne, educator

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 09 Nov 2016
Byrne graduated in 1960 from the former West Catholic Girls High School and entered the religious order of the Sisters of Mercy in Merion....

How a Wash. writer's short story became a major new film

Edit The Miami Herald 09 Nov 2016
At the heart of author Ted Chiang's acclaimed short story "Story of Your Life" is the idea of translation ... Back in those Microsoft days, Chiang, now 49, was already a published science-fiction writer (he won his first Nebula Award in 1990) and was at work on the research that would lead to "Story of Your Life." He was looking to use the variational principles of physics, which fascinated him, in a story....

Media obsession with a bullshit email scandal helped Trump to the White House

Edit Vox 09 Nov 2016
The problem is that if you think of campaign journalism as not just a series of stories but a collective effort to produce public understanding as an output, then we have failed ... People heard loud and clear that Clinton was in some kind of trouble related to email whereas the stories about Trump — with the exception of the sexual assault allegations, which came after this study — do not seem to have broken through....

Review: 'Notwithstanding' by Louis de Bernieres

Edit The Miami Herald 09 Nov 2016
"Notwithstanding," the new collection of 22 short stories from Louis de Bernieres, is utterly charming ... But while the stories in this collection are sweet, there's no treacle here ... At the end of a story about a young boy catching a local legend of a fish, we find him feeling torn about the triumph that will come to define his life.....

What’s Your Sports Book of the Year?

Edit Belfast Telegraph 09 Nov 2016
Insights in to top-flight Premier League; stories from the heart of Irish rugby, the world of Irish racing and breeding opened up . ... This Mercier Press title charts the rise of one of Ireland’s greatest sporting success stories ... This book, published by Transworld Ireland, tells a wealth of stories from on and off the pitch ... This autobiography is described as “as intense as its author” and tells the story of his remarkable career....

The top election night story on BI is 'How to move to Canada' as a Trump win suddenly looks possible

Edit Business Insider 09 Nov 2016
But the top story on Business Insider isn't one of our dozens of excellent real-time updates about the election ... The story has been surging since it was published a few days ago, largely thanks to organic traffic from social media sources ......

‘Mass Effect: Andromeda’ to Chronicle the Journey of New Protagonist and Untested Soldier Ryder into a Hero!

Edit Master Herald 09 Nov 2016
Game developer BioWare clarified recently that the fourth installment of the science-fiction space traveling video game franchise “Mass Effect” will have a different story structure compared to the first three games in the series ... Walters said that they are confident that the fourth “Mass Effect” game will tell a contained story which could possibly lead to more “Mass Effect” games in the Andromeda galaxy....

We’ll break the highest glass ceiling – someday

Edit Albuquerque Journal 09 Nov 2016
28, 1920, New Mexico celebrated along with the rest of the country – and Griggs’ own story began ... Her story is like the stories of many women over the years who have continued to move us forward in varying increments, in fits and starts, to get us to this place in history. It is the story of New Mexico Congresswoman ... The story continues....

Film review: Arrival strikes a fine departure point with ideas of language

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 09 Nov 2016
Written by Eric Heisserer, based on a story by Ted Chiang ... Arrival is based on Story of Your Life, a short story by Ted Chiang, one of the brightest stars in the sci-fi firmament. The story, and now the movie, is about a difficult problem in linguistics – whether the form of a language affects the way its users think (the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, to its friends)....

Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 Wiki – Everything you need to know about the game

Edit GamingBolt 09 Nov 2016
PES 17 is a professional soccer game that is the continuation of what has become a long-running series. The game is developed by PES Productions and is published by Konami ... There is no story in the traditional video game sense of a story. Like most sports games, the story unfolds through several different game modes that are included PES 2017. The story, in a general sense is how the team’s season unfolds as players go through it....

‘American Crime Story’ Season 2 Might See Sterling K. Brown and Sarah Paulson Reunite; Show’s Third Season Already in the Works!

Edit Master Herald 09 Nov 2016
The sophomore season of “American Crime Story” will be dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, based on Douglas Brinkley’s book ‘The Great Deluge ... The showrunner says that they are still finalizing the casting process for the new season and haven’t really told the actors who will play what part, but they already have the story laid out....

Inside our Comeback Story (Essendon Football Club)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Nov 2016
Essendon members will be given exclusive access to the Club's Comeback Story throughout the pre-season ... as the team prepares for 2017 ... To see the full version, make sure you're part of The Comeback Story....

Will ‘Fantastic Beasts’ conjure up ‘Harry Potter’s’ global magic?

Edit The Himalayan 09 Nov 2016
With no best-selling books this time around, “Fantastic Beasts,” featuring a story penned by Rowling, will test if the young audience that drove eight Potter films to gross $7 billion worldwide for Warner Bros, will turn out for a film set 70 years before Harry Potter first entered Hogwarts school ... The new story was welcomed by longtime Potter producer David Heyman and director David Yates....
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