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Remember, Jonze is the guy who went to John Malkovich and suggested making a movie about people who live inside the actor's head. "My intentions were pure," he says. "I wasn't asking people to do something that would embarrass them. Same with Malkovich. I was intimidated because he's so smart, and you feel like he can read your mind. I was only nervous because we wanted him so much...
...these two steps fail to bring the administration behind the council’s cause, Maats and Fox say they would contact national media organizations in an attempt to “embarrass the administration...
...match for the thieves. The nearest police station, 4 km away in Blessington, is closed at night. And the district patrol car on duty was based in Baltinglass, 26 km away. By the time the police arrived the gang was long gone. As if all of that wasn't embarrassing enough, this was the fourth time in 28 years that Ireland's best-known private art collection had been robbed. It belongs to the Beit family, which inherited 150 paintings - along with other objets d'art, antique furnishings and books - from Otto Beit, co-founder of the De Beers diamond...
Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73, director of undergraduate admissions The list of things I don’t know is long, and unprintable, and would embarrass me. But I’ll respond by telling you that I don’t understand why prospective college students don’t trust their own instincts—especially those of their own hearts—in choosing a college. Intellectual analysis doesn’t answer the important life questions...
...Somalia over the past decade, though in practice it is rarely used. In Nigeria, the introduction of shari'a is as much about politics as ideology. Worried that power was slipping to southern Christians, the northern Muslim elite has embraced shari'a. "Part of it is an attempt to embarrass Obasanjo," says Paul Marshall of the Center for Religious Freedom, based in Washington. "They are daring him to move against it and possibly lose Muslim votes...