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...prank calls. "It was like the old days when we lived together, except my trailer smelled better," Sandler says. The story is about an experience with a friend's sickness that Apatow, usually so open about his life, refuses to talk about. In the movie he has something very clear to say, which in its Shel Silverstein essence is that happiness comes from selflessness and living in the present, not from burying yourself in work...
Stepping through a low doorway into his small house, Fida Ag Mohammed sits at a table and pats a pile of books in front of him. Even in the dim light it's clear that these are no ordinary volumes. The books are covered with intricately hand-tooled sheep- or goatskin; inside, hundreds of pages of yellowed paper are filled with Arabic calligraphy - the painstaking penmanship of Mohammed's forebears centuries ago. "One of my ancestors from the 12th century began our family library," Mohammed says. "There are hundreds of collections like this...
...with disabilities tried to keep a question about handicaps off the questionnaire, afraid it would foster stereotypes. Instead, the data that came back helped bolster support for federal programs to help such people, and by the 1980 Census, rights organizations were lobbying for more refined questions, to make it clear how many people were, say, blind vs. paraplegic, so that each group could get its own funding...
...will say that this has been the most difficult test for me so far in public life, trying to describe in clear, simple terms how important it is that we reform this system. The case is so clear to me. And when I sit with our policy advisors - we had somebody here sitting right there this morning who is a medical expert, worked at McKinsey for a while, he's now working on our health care team - and he just ran through: We pay 77 percent more on prescription drugs, we're paying $6,000 more per individual on health...
...Iran has shown little appetite for negotiating over its nuclear program, and the continuing post-election turmoil inside the regime further bedevils prospects for talks. But the Administration is hoping to focus minds in Tehran on finding a diplomatic solution through a flurry of activity designed to make clear the consequences of Iran's refusal to negotiate over its nuclear program...