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...statement earlier this month, Robbins—who took home an Oscar last year for his supporting role in Mystic River—called receiving the Pudding’s prize “an experience of exaltation rivaled only by the birth of one’s children, being named the new Dalai Lama, or by being found not guilty on all charges...
Twin Doughnuts, named by the original owner after the birth of his twins, is perched at the juncture of North Beacon and Cambridge Streets (easily accessible by the T’s Route 66 Night Owl Bus). Doughnut-lovers and hungry clubbers are drawn to this late night Mecca by its inviting 1950’s-style neon-pink sign...
...serve them in government are chipping away at one of the greatest of American freedoms, for which past generations of patriots fought and died under the American flag just as surely as our troops in foreign fields. Must we start all over again? Is this really the new birth of liberty we’ve been promised...
...tale gallops through the birth of the Chinese republic, the Japanese occupation, the civil war, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the money-obsessed Deng Xiaoping era, Jintong's feisty sisters are killed off by war and other masculine misdeeds. And, as in other Mo Yan novels, peasants suffer and bleed while Communist functionaries strut, blunder and suck the country dry as Jintong's mother's breasts. The lad survives, though not without 15 years in prison, three in a mental institution and nearly a lifetime in thrall to his mammary fixation. "Whenever I saw a beautiful breast...
...Penn State report found that nearly one-fifth of both male and female professors at colleges that allow faculty to stop the tenure clock did not take advantage of the policy after the birth of a new child, even though they recognized that it would have helped them in their academic careers...