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...newspapers. By the end of the afternoon - some of which was spent strolling in the natural museum section of his Sardinian villa, looking at olive trees that were a gift from the Israeli Prime Minister - he had asked her to join his new task force on Europe. "He chose people who already work in TV, because they are usually better than others at talking in public situations," Alloro says. "Because politics is a show." (See pictures of Italy...
...tell your family members who have shown your child so much love that you're choosing a dude from your freshman dorm as a godparent instead of them. Which is why experts suggest you do it through a humor column in the back of a magazine. But we chose demographics over love. The Wus went to similar colleges, had similar jobs and do similar things with their time. Despite genetics and the 18 years we spent together, our family is less like us than the people we choose to associate with. Which means, sadly, that one day Laszlo will...
...certain point, the accumulation of stuff starts to drive your life." As Juliet Schor, an economist at Boston College who helps run the group, points out in her book The Overworked American, when workers became more productive over the second half of the 20th century, we as a society chose to take the benefit as more stuff. We could have also decided to, say, work a little less...
There is an appropriate time to try and advance your political and social platforms. This was not it. Ironically, she chose to push her agenda at a service dedicated to the very people who defend her right to free speech. In a chapel full of distinguished visitors, President Faust embarrassed herself, Harvard University, and the agenda she was trying to promote...
...Even the country's best-known blue movie director, christened Lindsay Honey, a name many porn stars would kill for, chose instead to adopt the comedy moniker Ben Dover. There's an innocence about such humor, as if Britons have been permanently stuck in adolescence since the Victorian era. But adolescence isn't the slow awakening it used to be, as Britain's soaring rates of teen sex and pregnancy indicate. The annual British Social Attitudes surveys chart a steady liberalization of British views on sex, with a majority of the public now finding nothing wrong with sex before marriage...