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...best part of this clip is its note-perfect rendition of the process, similar to those of yoga and crack cocaine, by which many viewers are introduced to the show in the first place. A friend says, "You've never seen Lost?" in a disbelieving tone of pity and disgust. Then - as night follows day - comes the inevitable binge. It's fair to say that many Lost fans have caught up with the show in long, slothful, weekend-consuming, sofa-denting DVD sessions. Its peculiar mysteries (smoke monster? four-toed statue? the island moves?) lend themselves well to this approach...
...direct connection between the Harvard based initiatives and the subsequent organizing efforts of the late eighties that involved first white mainline Episcopal, Unitarian and United Church of Christ churches, and then the Black churches in the nineties in focusing upon the explosion of violence related to the crack epidemic...
...Rome's city government has had enough. It has tried for years to crack down on the city's freelance gladiators - and has now decided that the best way to do that is to give travelers a more realistic experience. Umberto Broccoli, the recently named head of archaeology for Rome, is pushing ahead with a proposal to recreate gladiator battles in or near the Coliseum. Dressed in original costumes and carrying actual swords and tridents (unlike the plastic and aluminum toy replicas used by the current hustlers), well-trained gladiator actors will be choreographed to perform historically accurate battles like...
Kate is a 32-year-old stay-at-home mom and shoplifter. Marvin is an 80-year-old alcoholic. Sean is a 20-year-old college student addicted to porn and hookers. And Todd? He's an addiction counselor who also happens to be hooked on booze, crack, gambling, cigarettes and heroin. Author Benoit Denizet-Lewis (who reveals his own long battle with sex addiction in the book) dives deep into the lives of these and four other average Americans who struggle with self-destructive urges. As Denizet-Lewis writes, "nearly 23 million Americans - 9.2 percent of the population twelve...
...smack-down on him,' he tells me. 'I mean, what's the message of that book? The Twelve Steps are for p___ies. Fight everybody. Hold on. Get better on your own. Don't do anything the treatment center says. Get in a relationship right away. Go in the crack houses and save people. Basically all the messages that our addictions want us to believe so we stay addicted. If you know anything about addiction, you know that he's this typical, grandiose, un-recovered, wannabe...