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...many of my friends who were focused on staying in New York or Boston are now willing to take a job elsewhere after graduation,” she said.Butler, who has interviewed with companies in both finance and consulting, said that although she thinks of herself as a calm person, the process of finding a summer internship has caused her to be “much more stressed out than she has been in a long time.”But Delle, despite his difficulties this year, said he saw the situation somewhat differently, offering an optimistic perspective...
...record as a whole works like the song “Iris Unveiled.” Trail of Dead brings the listener through different volumes and speeds, intuiting well, for the most part, when the listener will be tired and need respite from it all and inserting moments of calm piano parts or sounds reminiscent of the ocean. Towards the end of the album, high-energy track “Ascending” interrupts a comfortable string of low-key songs. While for some this may be a welcome intrusion (like the return of the upbeat guitar riff...
...always had the dream of having a center here. When [my late husband] Stephen Weiss built this place as his studio I said no, let's make it a health and wellness place. I was constantly going away to find the calm in the chaos and I thought, Let's create it right here. Then two years ago we hosted this amazing event here for his Holiness the Dalai Lama and at that moment I knew that this was going to happen. It wasn't a desire anymore; it was a reality. I had to do this. I wanted...
...with an increasingly chaotic province. Things changed for the better only after March 2008, when local units of the Iraqi army - trained by the Brits and in control of the region from September 2007 - launched an operation to disperse the militias. Now violence has been replaced by an uneasy calm, and with Britain preparing to withdraw all but a small rump of its 4,100 troops by May 31, Basra is daring to dream of peace. (See pictures of Basra back in business...
...security forces arrested thousands of Tibetans on suspicion of involvement. Since then, the majority have been released, and life for Tibetans had seemed to be returning to normal. Some foreign tourists were even trickling into the region. But the coming months will provide a severe test of that relative calm. "It's hard to predict what will happen," says Rigzin. "But if they try to shove it down their throats and make Tibetans celebrate, that would not be good at all." Even if this period passes quietly, the year ahead contains many more potentially explosive anniversaries for Tibetans. April will...