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...Abortion is also an important element in The Banishment. Alex (Konstantin Lavronenko) leaves the city to spend two months in a rural family home with his wife Vera (Maria Bonnevie), their two young children and, from time to time, Alex's small-time criminal brother Mark (Alexander Baluev). Not long into their stay, the brooding Vera shatters Alex with this declaration: "I'm pregnant, and it's not your child." This cues his eventual insistence on an abortion. Their marriage has been strained before, but now the seams split, and anything that can go wrong, does...
...game to “CEB Self-Promotion.” The format would be very similar to Risk’s, except that the battles would be rhetorical, the rules prescribed by Stephen R. Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and the communistic House element eroded to shameless personal image management. And, of course, MorganStanley will be watching...
...songwriter Adam Schlesinger says there's a write-what-you-know element here: he and co-scribe Chris Collingwood spent years as temps, doing legal transcription and computer programming, respectively. "Work is just what most people do," he says. "Including us." Members of FOW don't lionize work, but they don't condemn it either. Rock bands traditionally write about white-collar work as corrupt (the Beatles' Taxman) or for suckers (Bachman-Turner Overdrive's Takin' Care of Business). FOW write about it the way country and folk singers write about manual labor: as a fact of life. Besides, Schlesinger...
...that element of control that spurred his 32-year-old son to make his move this morning. "It is time for me to continue his legacy in the only way I know I can by taking the life lessons he taught me, be a man, race hard and contend for championships. Since that is what I intend to do, I feel strongly that I would have my father's blessing...
...think that if they came to us in September, students would have supported some element of punishment and other more comprehensive improvements in student behavior,” Petersen said...