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Admissions officers, however, predicted the list would be viewed as yet another college ranking system akin to the famous annual survey published by U.S. News & World Report...
...story’s premise allows Black to tap into the keg of pure rock fervor from which he drank as a record store clerk in the film High Fidelity and in his band Tenacious D. But despite his incensed grimaces and feral guitar-groping, Black actually gives something akin to a complete performance. The sundry scenes in which Finn responds to the pupils’ various insecurities give a faint glimmer of hope that Black might have an acting career after his novelty wears off. As principal of the school, Joan Cusack delightfully combines insufferable prudence with button-down...
...chance that many Europeans see February 15, 2003—the day when millions of antiwar demonstrators engulfed virtually every large city in Europe—as the birth date of something akin to a European nation. There is no way to tell whether this sentiment will endure, but active opposition to the U.S. has clearly given Europeans a common bond that they can experience on an emotional level...
...Happiness at Work, a follow-up to his best-selling collaboration with psychiatrist Howard Cutler, The Art of Happiness, the Tibetan holy man reveals that his most blissful moment didn't occur in a state of relaxation. It happened when he passed the final exams for his Geshe degree, akin to a Ph.D. in Buddhist philosophy. Practical achievement should be exhilarating, the Nobel laureate says, as long as work is a calling--whether that calling is to serve others, work in government or provide for a family by practicing corporate law. Buddhist wisdom and Western science intersect in other places...
...TIME.comix: Your work on "The Spirit" has often been described as cinematic, but it strikes me that look of you work has changed to something more akin to theater. Most of the angles are straight on, with no distortion and little projection. It's proscenium-like...