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...Those familiar with biographies of Lyudmila and Vladimir Putin will easily identify the air hostess and her husband - and as easily will guess the rest of the plot: an inexorable climb to the pinnacle of the Russian state. It does not deviate from their real bios except for some dramatic "improvements" for the sake of political correctness. In real life, unlike in the film, Lyudmila Putina rarely appears in public alongside her husband, nor does she join him on his numerous foreign and domestic trips...
...undergrad, Class of 1996. When I was a sophomore, I was a computer science concentrator and I found myself doing well academically. [...] I was doing well in athletics (I played varsity squash), and I was doing well socially and everything seemed to be going well—except that I was not happy. This didn’t make sense to me and I wanted to figure out why I wasn’t happy and what I could do to become happier. It was then at this point, and in literally seconds, that I decided to change my concentration...
...problem: She’s into Shakespeare—like, more than friends. He’s into dicking around with his blockmates—who hate her, or rather the disruptive nature of squeeky bedsprings at all hours of the day (except during lecture) and girls who don’t clean up their toys. She wants to play Othello and Desdemona. He wants to play stockbroker and naughty school girl—the kind that skips section and doesn’t do the reading...
...been fucking this really hot girl, and it’s been great because she’s a total workaholic, so we only hang out on weekends. But now she wants to be my girlfriend, and says that if she can’t, then no more fucking. Except she calls it “focking.” She not being ironic (she thinks it’s cute), and she says it all the time. I already tried talking to her about it casually. I told her to call it “effing” like...
...conclusion that the White House should draw from this data is obvious: the U.S. must stop encroaching in the internal affairs of other countries, except when they explicitly threaten our territorial integrity. Rather than justifying a crusade, the events of 9/11 underscored the need for caution and prudence in American foreign policy, neglected in forming the spurious links between Osama Bin Laden, Sadaam Hussein, and Weapons of Mass Destruction that justified the Iraq intervention...