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...died in a boating accident. "When you lose your kid, it's the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning for about seven or eight years. Then there's the first morning when that's not the first thing you think of. You get brave," he says. His other two children, Sofia and Roman, are in the business, although the Oscar-winning Sofia is currently focused mainly on being a mom. Roman, an assistant director on Youth, co-wrote Wes Anderson's new film, The Darjeeling Limited...
...Baghdad is pressing a hard sell to fill roughly 48 positions with start dates in the summer of 2008. The State Department recently took the unusual step of warning more than 200 officers at its Washington headquarters that they may be forced into compulsory Iraq service unless enough brave souls step forward. Baghdad embassy officials say that since then 15 individuals have volunteered, leaving about 33 spots to be filled...
...painting and sculpture. As soon as I brought up the beauty problem, Puryear agreed. It took me a minute to realize we were talking past each other. He thought the work was so challenging to ordinary notions of what's pleasing to the eye "that a museum is brave to have this thing." I thought it was so flat-out gorgeous that he was in danger of being accused of making something "simply" beautiful...
...house—wall paintings, equestrian statues, baskets of fruit, and (yuck) their hands. Even the couch starts to bleed. And when they finally start making out, pinkness drips from their mouths like they’re diseased. Thankfully, reliable frontman and primary songwriter A.C. Newman (and his niece!) brave the oozing to provide lilting piano, acoustic guitar, and backing harmonies, all while standing robotically. It’s really quite impressive. This is the first time Neko has appeared in a New Pornographers video since their first album (Newman has even said they sometimes forget she?...
...Access to great education is what you, the Little Rock Nine, made possible for me.” Patrick challenged students and the younger generation to follow in the Little Rock Nine’s footsteps. “Coming to acknowledge what these fine and brave people did in their time ought to make us ask the question: What are we doing for our time?” he said. The former students added similar sentiments, expressing hope that their actions would inspire others to take similar risks. “Fifty years ago, we had a vision about...