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...this raw retelling, a priest (John Hurt) and a teacher (Hugh Dancy) must decide whether to stay and share the fate of 2,500 Tutsis, including a favorite pupil (Claire-Hope Ashley), who take refuge from Hutu thugs at their school. The tense action and graceful performances allay compassion fatigue...
...parenting magazines we read after I got pregnant instructed us to prepare the dog gradually for the baby's arrival. Wean him off the furniture first, the experts said. Let him sniff something of her before she arrives from the hospital--a blanket, a cap--to allay his suspicion. When she does come home, take care that I, his special person, do not carry the baby in. All this will teach him to embrace or at least tolerate the new member of the family and not act like a dingo and drag her away. The articles didn't say that...
...much time doing so. Dwelling too long on the elaborate tapestry of social rules and symbols that would separate a country bumpkin from a blue blood at Harvard would betray an unhealthy obsession with status—as if one’s admissions letter was not enough to allay feelings of social insecurity...
...Bush Administration is doing nothing to allay Tehran's paranoia. With the largest buildup in the Gulf since the start of this Iraq war, it's actually fanning it. You have to wonder if Bush is counting on the Iranians' overreacting the way they did when they seized our embassy in 1979. And lest we forget, this was driven by paranoia that we were plotting to destroy the revolution...
...amendment stating that instead of funding the whole project, the UC would simply match any House funding put toward newspapers. The alteration also would have allowed houses a certain freedom in choosing which newspaper was placed in dining halls. Neither aspect of the amendment proved to be enough to allay the concerns of the bill’s doubters. “We’re already on a very tight budget,” Jon T. Staff V ’10, a vice chair of the UC’s Financial Committee (FiCom), said, adding that the money...