Word: braved
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...ranks to vote Blocher out of the office, expressed their satisfaction that "democracy has prevailed." And, in a nationwide survey conducted shortly after the election, 60 percent of Swiss citizens said they were happy about Blocher's exclusion. "There is a big sense of relief that the legislators were brave enough to force this change," Lutz says...
...Eastern time on NBC, you're likely to see more celebrities than you can shake an autograph book or a fist at: George Clooney (Michael Clayton), Johnny Deep (Sweeney Todd), Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts (both for Charlie Wilson's War), Jodie Foster (The Brave One) and John Travolta (Hairspray). Angelina Jolie couldn't attract paying customers to A Mighty Heart, but her allure as a good-deed-doing camera magnet is undiminished. She'll be there as a Best Actress nominee. Brad will have to come as Angelina's guest, however; the Pitt bull was snubbed for Jesse James...
...relating to the Israel-Palestine issue,” Dershowitz said. Matory disagreed, telling The Crimson after the meeting that “there’s a minority on this campus that does feel intimidated and threatened. People say to me, ‘You’re brave.’” Fellow anthropologist Steven C. Caton, director of Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, said that he felt Matory’s concerns about speech on Israeli issues were justified. “The problem seems most acute around anti-Israel positions...
...More than any other day, this day ought to commemorate brave individuals with whom we might not have any connection other than our shared humanity. With so many places in the world where human dignity is suppressed, the fortune of our situations is a mere blessing of history. Any of us may very well have been born in a place devoid of individual liberties...
...heartwarming, we mutter to ourselves. But there's something better than that about this kid and Ellen Page's performance in the role. There's something unself-consciously brave about the way she pushes her burgeoning belly through the school cafeteria, something very nice about the way her father (J.K. Simmons) and step-mother (Allison Janney) support her without losing their tartness (or their reality) in the process, something authentically sweet about the way her relationship with Paulie keeps believably developing. The screenwriter, Diablo Cody, knows the limits of this story and, better still, the limits of our patience...