Word: felted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...promotion in an era dominated by the adoration of the celebrity is at its base, a worthless endeavor as it is emotionally unsatisfying: “The evening had been a real success, they’d all seen me with Kaminski, everything had gone well. Yet suddenly I felt sad.”And yet, while the novel engages with a whole range of important ideas, the problem of the story itself is that Kaminski’s nihilism is too overbearing. Kaminski rants, “you think you have a life. And suddenly, everything?...
...wines and all those sorts of things,” Geller said. Geller said that the McCarthys have been considering stepping down from the post for several years. McCarthy said that, as masters with the second-longest tenure of those currently at the College, he and his wife felt comfortable leaving the House mastership because they are satisfied with the state in which they will leave Pforzheimer. Next year, McCarthy will take a sabbatical during which he will work on a book, develop a new General Education course, and research the intersection of religion and science. He added that...
...Fang, and Lu had resolved to raise her on his own. It is with a similar determination that Lu now fights for an answer to why the school caved in, crushing his daughter. Lu had just had lunch with her in town an hour before the quake struck. He felt the earth move, and then rocks tumbled down from a nearby peak. As soon as the tremors eased, he ran to the school. "The five-story building was completely flattened, and young, broken bodies were everywhere," he says. "I cried and cried, dug and dug, until the police stopped...
...mention in the book that you felt burned out on competitive life in 1998 and retired but then you ultimately returned. Why did you feel burned out? I'd been doing the same thing every year for a number of years. I was probably - well, not even probably - I was definitely tired of it in the end. I mean, for surfing, our year is not like a 4- or 6-month thing, it's basically a 10-plus-month tour, so that is tiring. You go to the same places each year, surf the same spots, see the same guys...
...Certainly Michigan Senators Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow - along with three of their colleagues from other states whose economies depend on the auto industry, including Republicans Kit Bond of Missouri and George Voinovich of Ohio - felt their plan was sufficient. At a much subdued press conference held right after Reid and Pelosi's wrapped up, they unveiled their compromise, which would pull the $25 billion from a fund approved earlier this year to help the auto industry develop more fuel-efficient cars; that notion had actually been pushed by Republicans earlier in the week, but until Thursday, Democrats had contended...