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...qualified to say this, but blackhead extraction is more painful than giving birth. Apparently when I checked off "sensitive skin" in the initial questionnaire, it also meant "please gouge out tiny holes from my tender flesh." I would have cried, but I was afraid my tears would bind to the moisturizer-soaked cotton balls over my eyelids, leaving me blind-albeit free of those fine lines around the eyes. If this was what it took to be pretty, I didn't have the guts...
...waning days of the Second World War. “We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that ‘the only way to have a friend is to be one.’” The values of human equality and dignity that bind us to the rest of the world cannot be taught or presented in neat packages but must be learned individually from experience, curiosity, and struggle. Sure, that neo-hippie experiment of a high school I attended has gotten to my head, but I like this idea of global citizenship more than...
...Times’ Washington Bureau, Rosenthal bet a colleague that he could get a story on the front page every day for a week. He called the first few stories “no sweat,” but as the week wore on, Rosenthal found himself in a bind.“Friday facing the Saturday paper I was absolutely wiped out when just at lunchtime I got a call from someone I had known slightly who was on the Board of Overseers and he says, ‘We’ve just chosen Derek...
...impoverished peasants gets wider, the fury of the poor is fast becoming explosive. With access to the mass media and the Internet, village folk are becoming more conscious of pervasive hardship and injustice and are beginning to voice their resentment. The protests have put the authorities in a bind. True to the dogma of communism, the regime is making incessant efforts to clamp down on websites and blogs, hoping that dissent will not burst into a wildfire. When the demonstrations get ugly, the government may opt for bloody suppression and further fuel the people's outrage, leading to tragic anarchy...
...bigger the militias get, the more likely they are to intensify their clashes over turf and authority. A U.S. military-intelligence officer says there is still some reason to believe that Iraqis will put their common interests ahead of their rivalries. "In this society, there are many ties that bind--from tribe to clan to educational, social and political," he says. "I don't think the threads have been cut." If they ever are, it may prove impossible to put them back together...