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...Hague in 2000 when he boasted that he used to down 14 pints of beer in a day. Another difference may lie in the fact that Moss issued a vague apology "to all the people I've let down," and checked herself into rehab. Kennedy's press conference by comparison came off as emotionally gooey - without saying "sorry" - and that's not what Britain wants in its political leaders. In the U.S., the culture of confession is now a staple of political life. Bill Clinton's presidency, for example, was perfectly framed between a Sunday night, prime-time appearance with...
...that pales in comparison to what the foundation has done for the public imagination. For decades, the field of global health had languished, and there was a consensus that little could be done to change the fate of the poorest of the poor. Jim Kim, until recently director of WHO's department of HIV/AIDS, refers to that dark period as BGF (Before the Gates Foundation). Now, says Kim, "the Gates Foundation has made global health cool...
...around a watering hole on the Serengeti? We’ll tell you once that drinking fountain gets replaced.One: Pimp our pit-stops. Three words: toilet seat protectors. Widener Library has them. Lamont Library has them. House common bathrooms don’t. We realize this is an unfair comparison. But after wiping the seat down with the Purel by the card-swiper’s desk for the umpteenth time, we figured it might deserve a prominent mention. If we can’t—how shall we say—mate los microorganismos, we might as well...
...meeting that offering students a “rich curriculum” without requiring them to take many specific types of classes was similar to offering students healthy food at the dining hall but not requiring them to eat it, the minutes report that some chairs found the comparison to be a “disanalogy...
...embarrassments may not sound particularly hilarious, but, trust me, it is. Baumbach?s sympathy for the all-too-human spectacle of lust pratfalling over itself makes the film as funny as it is painful. The only appropriate response to this lacerating brood - whose troubles make the Saraband family, by comparison, seem like the Andersons from Father Knows Best - is the laughter of shock and compassion...