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Living Out Her Vows

Sister Kathleen Marie Keenan’s job: To ensure that everyone who works in a Mercy hospital understands Mercy’s mission “to provide compassionate care and access to people living in the communities where our hospitals are located.”

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“Nothing Stops Me”

Mother, businesswoman, doggedly determined student, cancer survivor and leader of Irish causes throughout Philadelphia. That’s Kathy McGee Burns.

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Walking the Walk and Talking the Talk

For Denise Morrison, president of Campbell USA, good business is about more than soup sales. It’s about doing the right thing.

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Helping to Make a Difference in the World

Emily C. Riley, executive vice president of the Connelly Foundation, feels fortunate to continue her parents’ good works.

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A Heart as Big as Her Smile

It’s useless to try to give Rosemarie anything, friends say. She just gives it to someone else she thinks needs it more than she does.

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Don’t You Just Love Us?

Some very important people at the Missouri School of Journalism want to know. Take their survey.

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Meet the Dark Lord of the Dance

Adam McSharry has been playing Don Dorcha—the “man in black” character who always loses in this Michael Flatley dance extravaganza—for eight years. And he loves being bad.

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How to Be Irish in Philly This Week

Learn the strategies that kept Ford from failing from its top economic strategist at an Irish American Business Chamber event this week. Then there’s the Celtic Street Festival in Phoenixville, the Saw Doctors, Seven Nations, Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance, Matt and Shannon Heaton, the Galway Dinner Dance, and much, much more. A jam-packed week.

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