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...called Dr. Donna Benton, a gerontologist at the University of Southern California (no, Mom, I did not say anything about your slippery new bathroom tile, which, if it did come up, was mentioned only in the context of nonskid tub strips), and described how I had broached the subject...
Increasingly, though, we go to Jackie Chan movies not for the star's good moves but for his good nature. He's the kind of guy you could ruin with slickness and overmounting, the sort of performer who flourishes in the hip-casual context that screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have provided him here. Everyone's having a good time, but they're not winking at us either--making us parties to their in-jokes. As a result, we have a swell time...
...enough of a motivation for such good deeds. The homeless should be counted so that Detroit is allotted the resources to be able to feed them. Making sure they are counted is certainly a worthy endeavor--however, it is a worthy endeavor in and of itself, out of the context of simply trying to break a million. They and their issues are important regardless of Detroit's final population count...
...Julie Catalano was denied leadership because of her religious beliefs, not her orientation," he said. "Any heterosexual who rejects the view that sexual activity should take place in the context of a marriage covenant between husband and wife would also be ineligible for leadership...
...realized that the legal environment was a context for the generation of systematic meanings, and wanted to understand that better," she said of her scholarship...