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...White House. He also named Melody Barnes, a longtime aide to Senator Edward Kennedy, to lead his Domestic Policy Council; and Christine Romer, a University of California, Berkeley, economist, to chair the Council of Economic Advisers, two other White House policy shops. Obama said this group would put some flesh on the bones of an economic stimulus plan and that he would in "coming weeks" share their outline with the American people...
...mime's pallor, sitting in biology class next to young Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart). When he holds an apple in his hands to present to her - the novel's cover image - the girls emit an awestruck sigh, as if they'd just seen Zac Efron in the flesh or a puppy on YouTube. And when he tells Bella, "So the lion fell in love with the lamb," you hear applause, the imprimatur of Meyer's young connoisseurs. To judge from a preview screening, Twilight the movie is their dream of the book projected 30 feet high...
...idle viewers who only see the green field of Harvard Stadium through a drunken stupor every other year at The Game, these six or seven hulks of flesh seem to serve little purpose other than to block a fan’s view of the guy throwing the ball. Even the slightly more informed fans (i.e. those who know who Clifton Dawson '07 is) might struggle to come up with a quick, direct way to assess an O-line—sacks allowed? Rushing yards per game...
...disturbing trend? Maybe. Is our appetite for the “torture porn” that the “Saw” franchise provides so insatiable? Do we, the dispossessed and bitter, really crave our yearly pound of flesh from the power-wielding pretty people? Is that what we’re after...
...friend's 6-year-old recently started primary school in Istanbul. By the second week, his favorite superhero, Spider-Man, had been supplanted by a flesh-and-blood mortal who died 70 years ago: Mustafa Kemal, better known as Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey. The boy's shift of allegiance is a universal rite of passage in Turkey, where children are raised on a diet of passionate poems, military derring-do and sanitized history that elevate the national hero into a demigod. (See pictures of cultures co-existing in Istanbul...