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...party know they, too, must be graceful in victory. The global financial crisis has sparked fears of a downturn in tourism, while Nasheed must also tend to a budding housing shortage and a staggering drug epidemic: by some estimates, 1 out of every 3 Maldivian youth is a drug addict. "We are not interested in revenge," says the MDP's Zaki. "Now is the time to look to our future...
...prompting me to wonder if producers need to realize that the most interesting characters should have the shortest lifespans.Consider Fox’s medical drama “House,” now in its fifth season, which stars Hugh Laurie as brilliant case-cracking doctor and miserable Vicodin addict Gregory House. For the first two and a half seasons, the show had great writing that focused on House’s painful personal history, his dry wit, and the tension between his hatred of people and his drive to save their lives. Viewers like me were treated to continual...
...adventures might befall the characters, they are mere preparation for what is to occur later.This novel opens on the cusp of the Opium Wars, with the chaos of the Far East’s opium trade visible just over the precipice. Deeti, an Indian peasant whose husband is an addict, spends her days tending the poppy fields that the sahibs (rulers of the province) forced her and those like her to cultivate. Where once they had planted crops that would feed their families, they now tend waving fields of blossoms that will one day become the opium manufactured...
...This was my dream job not only because of the chance to work at Gawker (a site which any legit internet addict visits compulsively), but also because I consider myself a veritable TV connoisseur. Based on my considerable experience, I have the definitive opinion on whether a show is good or bad. Gossip Girl: Great. Heroes: Quickly fading. Prison Break: Terrible. Ugly Betty: Pure gold. CSI Miami: Pure crap...
...called the Bureau of Study Counsel and asked if I could “turn myself in” as a Net addict. But some helpful pamphlets on time management aside, they didn’t have anything to tell me about my condition. My counselor apologetically suggested, “You could google it.” University Mental Health Services proved similarly forthcoming. I gave my number to someone rumored to be an expert on the subject, but he has yet to call...