Word: doneness
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...Peter Parker’s grouchy landlord in the “Spider-Man” movies. 5. Every time you find yourself thinking, “Barack would never do this.” 6. Every time you find yourself thinking, “McCain might have done this in his younger days.” 7. Every time one of the sketchy Soviet terrorists sneaks a peek at a skirted woman climbing a ladder. 8. Every time a decision of Vice President Glenn Close is ignored because she’s a woman. We’ve come...
...exhibit in the context of today’s Darwin Day celebration: “It might be interesting to someone coming from the reading of ‘On the Origin of the Species’ to go to the Cabot Library to see what people have done with it and the rest of Darwin’s legacy.” Browne, who is offering a talk at the symposium and a lecture titled “Darwin 200: Re-thinking the Revolution” at 6 p.m., extends a similar welcome. “Do make...
...story revolves around Slimane (Habib Boufares), a tired 61-year-old shipyard worker who is laid off from his job after decades of faithful labor. His ensuing unemployment is marked by an absence of direction and purpose, and a hint of despair. “I’ve done nothing, left nothing to you,” he says, disillusioned, to his lover. Yet Slimane’s pride compels him to pull himself out of this dejection, and he decides to pursue an unexpected line of business, opening a family-run restaurant that specializes in serving couscous...
...going if he hopes to match his success on the stimulus with measures to recapitalize the banking system and reform entitlements, energy and health care. On those issues, Snowe and Collins would tend to be supportive, but neither will go along automatically. Snowe, for one, thinks Obama could have done a better job of reaching out to House Republicans and making them as much a part of the negotiations in that chamber as they were in the Senate. "I'm sure he's learned from this one," says Snowe. Adds Collins: "The elections are over, and now the American people...
...well below the $800 billion ceiling that the three Republicans and a group of 15 centrist Senate Democrats had demanded in exchange for their support. Even so, House Republicans complained bitterly about being left out of the process. "Some have said that we don't want to see anything done. Nothing could be further from the truth," said Representative Eric Cantor, the No. 2 House Republican. "I don't think you're going to find a Republican in the House who says he or she doesn't think we need to act on a stimulus now. We're just concerned...