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After the 2008 turnover, Tester was only 84th in seniority, so he and his staff spent two months following hallway gossip about which offices would be getting scooped up. Back in January, the dream was that they'd get Joe Biden's office, but Judd Gregg took that, and Bob Casey took Gregg's. When Tester's draft day finally came, he looked at the dozen or so offices remaining, eventually deciding, after three trips, on Mary Landrieu...
...families still in India, still piled onto motorcycles, who have asked themselves that question. "It's difficult to carry my entire family on a bike," says Jyotirmoy Sarkar, a rice farmer in a village 72 miles (116 km) from Kolkata. "For people like me with limited means but big dreams, Nano is a dream come true." That's a big order for a small...
...this statement might sound heartfelt, if somewhat trite. In the context of this film, however, Troy simply sounds insane. Troy (Colin Hanks) is a young law student who drops out of school against his father’s wishes, having decided that writing is his true calling. When this dream doesn’t materialize immediately, he decides to accept the first job he can find and ends up becoming the road manager for Buck Howard, a self-important, washed-up mentalist hoping to relive his former fame. Troy’s father (Tom Hanks, both on screen...
...microcosm.” Eventually, Grayson becomes more and more cognizant of the fallacies of the deluded members of Little Rocky Run. In the end, it’s his community that facilitates his suicide. “NoVA” is another novel that criticizes the American Dream as a mind-numbing routine of frozen dinners, high school cafeterias, and TV reruns. Though Boice ultimately condemns Little Rocky Run, his novel succeeds not through his sensationalizing prose, but through his dark sense of humor, caustic perceptions, and compelling candor...
...united and peaceful Ireland. “If we think we can be part of this, we can be part of this. If we think we can do nothing, we will do nothing,” he said. “Everything that happens starts with a dream. The trick is to make the dream come true. I think we can make the dream come true for the people who live in Ireland...