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...Erika Frankel wanted to make a documentary about the elite New York magnet public school’s SU election. Zisiadis, who had been freshman class president, had thrown his hat into the ring again when filming started in May 2006.The sophomore in Adams House said it was a bit “surreal” to have cameras following him around for a month.“I woke up one morning at 6:30 to leave my house, and I found them staked outside my house with camera equipment,” Zisiadis said. But, he added...
...Probably a good bit, at least until a steady-state was restored...
...think non-horror writers still look down upon the genre? You still seem a little peeved at Shirley Hazzard for ragging on Stephen King at the 2003 National Book Awards. I thought that was egregious. It rankled a bit that she should have told off Steve, and in effect dismissed him when he had just given this really great talk and the [National Book Foundation] had just given him a really serious honor. It was small-minded of Shirley Hazzard to object to his content...
...emergency. The World Bank says it has roughly $27 billion ready to offer in loans through the International Bank for Development and Reconstruction. But with a global recession looming, no coordinated plan addressing the needs of poor nations is being discussed. "People are starting to worry a little bit that some of these emerging market countries are the ones that are left out," says Ben Carliner, director of research at the Economic Strategy Institute, a think tank in Washington...
...Retin-A right now and I do think that works. The other creams might actually reduce your wrinkles the tiniest bit because some of them make claims that they do. The problem is, nobody is examining your face as closely as you do. What I learned after a year - this is really to me the take-home message - is that there's good news and bad news. The bad news is that it's very difficult, if not impossible, to look younger. But the good news is that it's possible and actually relatively easy and inexpensive to appear more...