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...every now and then. I just did Rescue Me with Denis Leary, who's a good friend. It was a really insane job for me to take, but I play a paraplegic, bitter ex-athlete. It was really challenging trying to will myself to be still for any amount of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Michael J. Fox | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard will have a chance to end the season on an up note Thursday with a road game at BU, but it seems that the bitter taste of Sunday’s losses will remain with the Crimson for a while...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TO SAY THE LEIST: Harvard Can't Come Up With Final Rally | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...were Benji's age, you'll remember the party at the roller rink, the Apple II+, the Tears for Fears video and the way everybody said "dag," a word expressive of such complex emotion that you couldn't possibly articulate its meaning. But Whitehead can. "Dag was bitter acknowledgment of the brutish machinery of the world," Benji explains, and he makes it sound so right and true that you wish people would start to say it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dag! | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...Even more questions linger surrounding her death, which signaled the dawn of the Roman Empire under Julius Caesar's nephew Octavian, who was waging a bitter civil war with Mark Antony. "She definitely died at a very convenient time for Octavian," says Tyldesley. "There is no absolute proof that she committed suicide, and so it is possible that she was either forced to do so, or that she was killed. Of course," she adds, "there is no proof that she died by snakebite, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tomb of Antony and Cleopatra? | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...deal for my village. The leadership was so disappointing that it drove me away. I can't wait to see a new village leader who can help change the situation." At a time when millions of other like him are returning to their villages with similarly bitter memories and high expectations, Communist Party cadres must be delighted that they have put in place a system where, for once, someone else can take the blame when things go wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More and More, Rural China Is Going to the Polls | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

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