Word: camped
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...attend Queen's Medical School on a tiny Indonesian island. Queen's is the last chance for extremely wealthy students who have failed to get into any medical school. Tuition is the only requirement for acceptance. Isolated and outside the jurisdiction of American law, Queen's is "the boot camp of medical schools," motivating its students by any means necessary--namely bullying and psychological abuse. According to the publicist, thrust into this atmosphere Jane somehow manages to "retreat deeper into a body and spirit she no longer recognizes," eventually emerging determined to succeed. This book is really a high school...
...King was not invited to join President Jimmy Carter's 1978 Camp David negotiations, which produced the landmark Israeli-Egyptian peace accord. But for many years afterward, Hussein played a pivotal role, often behind the scenes, in diplomacy to achieve a comprehensive peace. Besides conducting secret negotiations with Israeli leaders for years, he became a crucial partner of the Palestinians at the 1991 Madrid talks that led to the 1993 Oslo accords. In 1994 he fulfilled a long-standing ambition by negotiating Jordan's peace treaty with Israel...
...Oxford camp can go into admirable contortions explaining why Shakespeare's friendly rival Ben Jonson, in an encomium in the 1623 First Folio, calls the deceased Bard "the swan of Avon" (a conspiracy, they say). But their gravest problem is the existing poetry of De Vere himself. It is competent yet uninspired. The 20 or so poems may be juvenilia, but there is neither spark nor promise to the lines, too full of alliteration, all too devoid of depth. "Fram'd in the front of forlorn hope past all recovery,/I stayless stand, to abide the shock of shame...
...film that walks the tightrope between comedy and tragedy. A few critics have condemned it because it "lightens" the impact of the Holocaust, but such complaints are infuriatingly ignorant. In fact, Benigni's story of a father trying to protect his son from the horrors of a concentration camp is the type of movie that grips you, gives you chills and ultimately leaves you speechless. An overwhelmingly beautiful work...
...Berkowitz Camp...