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...number of lines in the book about how God needs man to sin so he can punish him. That's an interesting concept, could you speak a little bit about that? I had just done this hideous radio interview in Berlin for German public radio. At one point, I meant to say "Sieht so aus als haettest du all dein Deutsch vergessen," which means "I guess I've forgotten so much German." Only I misconjugated the verb vergessen to vergast, and when I came out of the interview, the publicist was a furious with me. Vergast is the past tense...
...problems with the law (defendants are more simpatico than prosecutors). Broken promises, half-truths, unanswered questions? The word accountability doesn't translate well into Italian. This is the land of human nature, as one American traveller once said. And of emotional politics. France is a bit like that too. It's no coincidence that a bright, quick, short populist, who also happens to be a bit of a ladies' man, is running the show in Paris. Like us, the French see politicians the way the British see City bankers. We forget and forgive, even though we shouldn't. (See pictures...
Actual Retail Price: Haha, this one is just funny. "One Harvard", sounds a bit like one of FlyBy's favorite throwback mottos. Harvard's too big to fail, right...
According to his blog, "it wasn't clear to some that booking a DJ Straus performance doesn't involve micromanaging the music playlist." Sounds like a bit of a "creative control" tussle...
...Crimson’s women’s golf team, the weeks leading up to the end of the semester period are no different. With especially full schedules after missing school during their recent victory at the Ivy League Championships, the Harvard female golfers found time to practice a bit harder to come by recently than they probably would have liked. The busy academic workload and limited practice time caught up to the team this past weekend, as the Crimson placed 19th out of a 21-team field at the NCAA Central Regional Championship in Columbus, Ohio, matching its performance...