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...your-mother jokes; Shrek the Third includes a visit to a fairy-tale high school where there's a Just Say Nay rally and a stoner-sounding kid stumbles out of a coach trailed by a cloud of "frankincense and myrrh" smoke. More broadly, each movie gives Shrek and Fiona an adult challenge: in the first, to find love and see beyond appearances; in Shrek 2, to meet the in-laws; in Shrek the Third, to take on adult responsibility and parenthood (Shrek has to find a new heir to the throne of Far Far Away, or he will have...
...trust him. Frank Luntz, the U.S. pollster who has recently been taking the country's temperature for Ireland's national broadcaster rte, says Ahern gives "the impression of being human and personable and genuinely likable. While people may be disappointed with the government, they're not disappointed with him." Fiona Sherlock, just 18 and looking forward to voting for the first time, is happy to have met a hero at the checkout. "I'm not much on Fianna Fáil, but Bertie is a grand chap. He's one of us." That sense of ownership is evident everywhere...
...Foundation intern Amanda R. Mangaser ’10 said she thought students should appreciate the differences of others. “It seems like a waste not to take advantage of Harvard’s diversity while you’re here,” she said. Fiona K. Fong ’08 said her blocking group’s diversity made her interact with people who were different from her. “If I didn’t block with them, I would’ve tended to just hang out with people from my activities...
...Bull, Saga's group marketing director, says mature consumers are just as eager to buy as youngsters, though they are savvier and more discerning. They are also richer - much richer. "They control 80% of the nation's wealth and they're very happy to spend it," says Fiona Hought, managing director of Millennium, a British ad agency that specializes in selling to oldsters...
Cross-pollination is at the heart of Adelaide-based Fiona Hall's work, and her botanical passions have often brought her in close proximity to Aboriginal Australia. This is cleverly suggested in "Prism" by placing her cabinet of glass-beaded native flora and fauna, Understorey, 1999-2004, in the anteroom to a gallery of work by mainly women artists from the Central Australian settlement of Utopia, whose riotous desert-flower colorfields appear to wink at Hall's work...