Word: apartness
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...plausible. Ernestine Maisonet started fading in eighth grade, when the grandmother who had raised her died. "She was a woman who worked wonders," murmurs Maisonet, who says she doesn't know her mother and isn't close to her dad. After the death, her family of six siblings fell apart. Maisonet has lived sometimes with an aunt, sometimes with a boyfriend, and sometimes she had no place to go. "I was a good student until my grandmother passed away," says the 19-year-old redhead from the Bronx. Though she was enrolled in high school, she earned just three credits...
...Arab governments have welcomed the Sharm el-Sheikh conference as an opportunity to have their voices heard on the Iraq crisis. But apart from forgiving some loans dating from Saddam Hussein's rule, they have been reluctant to take further steps, such as giving strong political backing to al-Maliki's government, using their influence with Iraqi Sunni leaders to halt the insurgency and, in the case of Syria, to stem the flow of insurgents from Syria into Iraq...
Though all three actors confess a weakness for the low-brow—“I still find shitting in your pants hilarious,” Samberg said with a grin— they are very aware of the more subtle ironies that set Lonely Island videos apart from the online flotsam...
...something more.ON YOUR RADARCheck My Radar’s say that their social networking site provides a different service than similar sites such as Facebook and MySpace by focusing the networking activities of its users on romance—a synergistic approach Tanjeloff and Galkowski say will set it apart from conventional dating Web sites.“Dating sites are trying to find love where you have not looked,” says Tanjeloff, but Check My Radar will only facilitate relationships between people that have already met. “This site will mirror the way that people...
...example.“When you’re drumming with a group, if you’re the lead drummer, it’s amazing how if you get really into it, everyone else gets into it, and if your mind drifts, the whole group starts to fall apart,” he says.Ogunnaike also attributes his strong academic performance to drumming.“Any musical practice sharpens your mind and provides you with mental discipline,” he says. “It’s also an amazing way to blow off stress, and banging...