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...know...so I just clicked on [the e-mail] very casually,” she said in a phone interview. “I was at work...I just stood up and turned around and said ‘I just got into Harvard.’ My boss couldn’t hear what I was saying, so I screamed it in the middle of the office...
...once, the industry establishment has joined in the condemnation, in part because the Captivity studio is not a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, which is in charge of movie ratings and advertising. "I was very troubled that this was out there," says MPAA boss Dan Glickman of the Captivity campaign. "This was not advertising that was approved by us. Our bottom line is to do what we can to protect children...
...broader sense, The Sopranos is about male baby-boomer American leadership in an age of irreconcilable demands and diminished expectations. As a Mob boss and a family man, Tony is caught between what he is and what he imagines himself to be. He cannot muster the stoicism the past demanded of men nor the sensitivity the present does. He whines to his therapist and "goes about in pity" for himself (the quote is from an Ojibwe proverb that Tony reads and that he believes applies only to other people), yet he longs for the days when men were strong...
...shot by dementia-addled Uncle Junior, is celebrating his 47th birthday. Later there's a reference to one of his Mob peers, who died at 47. No one connects the dots explicitly, but the parallel is not lost on Tony. "My estimate, historically, 80% of the time, [a Mob boss] ends up in the can," he tells his brother-in-law Bobby (Steven R. Schirripa). "Or in the embalming room"--that is, whacked...
...with a list of Israeli demands. Where is your list of our demands for the Israelis?" Abbas supposedly agreed. It was only after TIME published these remarks as we admit here, and the State Department denied that Abbas had confronted Rice, that the influential Fatah chiefs learned their boss had not followed through. "Frankly, I'm not surprised," one angry committee member remarked afterwards, "Abbas doesn't respect us. He's too busy bowing to American demands. He's become Condi's office...