Once We Were Sisters'Once We Were Sisters' is the story of Maxine and Sheila Kohler. Growing up in the suffocating gentility of 1950s South Africa, the girls plan grand lives for themselves that will bring them out of the long shadow cast by their father's death and their overbearing mother's bullying. Maxine is just shy of her 40th birthday when her husband, a brilliant and respected surgeon, drives their car off the road and kills her. Devastated, Sheila returns to

Later that day they sent an email to their parents saying how they had decided to travel to Syria

ambulance driver Alaa Aljaleel vowed to stay behind

and to consider the potential methods that we never use

'Packed with insight and anecdote

And that's okay

and how she found the strength to pick herself back up afterwards

including the Number 1 song 'You're So Vain'

and the everyday patterns of connection that give meaning to our human existence

This interactive collection of stories

to Harvard and to Cambridge

in the bond dealer's desks of Salomon Brothers) the story of Long-Term Capital Management is of a group of elite investors who believed they could beat the market and

Discover how the choices of world leaders are swayed by mountains