Word: exceptionality
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...walked into this room, the same man I was yesterday . . . and a long time ago, when I rose from my hospital bed and was permitted by the grace of God to walk again in the world. I trust in the hard way, for little has come to me except the hard...
...We’ve been getting information from Harvard, but in terms of any real discussion back and forth I do not believe that takes place substantively at all,” he said. “This task force has no authority except for the hopes and dreams that you [the BRA] are listening...
...which two competitive chefs fall in love; and Becoming Jane, in which Jane Austen has to choose between love and proper behavior. Coming in September is Good Luck Chuck, in which every girl Chuck sleeps with goes on to marry the next guy she meets. All of them, except the Austen, are what's known in the romance-novel business as HEAs (happily-ever-afters), and none of them are remotely stirring, although Good Luck Chuck is spectacularly off-putting. "Romantic comedies are backbreaking to write because they have to be fresh," says Mike Newell, director of Four Weddings...
...water that many of us haul around as if preparing for a stroll in the Sahara. Americans drank more than 8.25 billion gal. (more than 31 billion L) of bottled water in 2006, a 9.5% increase from the year before. We buy more bottled water than any other beverage except soft drinks, and soda's market share is fizzling fast. Water sales topped $10.8 billion last year--all for something you can get virtually free. "It's like marketing air," marvels Allen Hershkowitz, an industrial ecologist with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC...
...Presidents fight so hard to win the office, but we often forget the price they pay to hold it. If Graham helped raise these men up, he also caught them after they returned to earth. "Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done," Graham said. "And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently...