Word: fixes
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...time,” she said. Having lived in the Philippines, New Zealand, and London, Simmons is a seasoned international scholar. Her favorite place in the world, however, is closer to home. “Cambridge, Massachusetts,” she answered. “If they fix the potholes.” —Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...well into this fascinating movie - about a crafty old tailor and money lender named Geremia (Giacomo Rizzo - before we realize that the old woman is the aged mother Geremia dutifully cares for, the young woman is a Romanian refugee whom a matchmaker tries fruitlessly to fix up with Geremia, and the volleyball girls are his one erotic release in an otherwise mean existence...
...Patching the Safety Net A series of clinic visits by one patient made me realize just how broken the current health care system is ? and what can be done to fix...
...which opens in Australia this week), the camera doesn't lie. When Dan is told he is to become a father, his face, caught in the light of a window, floods with tenderness. Ledger appears to act only when his character must-to hustle for the couple's next fix. Otherwise his performance is fakery-free. As the sun Dan orbits, Abbie Cornish carries the same dreaminess she first displayed in Somersault. If she never quite plumbs Candy's depths, that's because she remains in Dan's eyes an ideal. Also directing their gaze is Svengali figure Casper, boldly...
...noting that the Department of Education, while approving the new model for evaluating student performance in Tennessee and North Carolina, rejected similar applications of more than a dozen other states. "I think it's rather disingenuous to float the idea of all these things you can to do to fix No Child Left Behind and then award it to only a couple of states," Shreve says...