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...Julie & Julia project was all about that - a way for me to bring some structure to my life after I'd freaked out about turning 30. When I come to the point that is depicted in Cleaving, this difficult period in my marriage, I needed something to take my focus physically, mentally. Learning this art of butchery and spending hours at the shop was what I needed to focus on - both to learn the skills and to figure out what I was doing in life...
...move surprised some analysts, as it represented the company's first real foray into retail, which has struggled during the downturn. "You kind of wonder what they are doing here," says Linda Bolton Weiser, equity research analyst at Caris & Co. "When companies start to veer off their main focus, it often doesn't work...
...ways to do bad things, and I just don't see how they could stop them all," said Frank Filardi. "Basically, they can figure out what the media, the Congressmen and the Members of Parliament are going to beat them up about if they let it happen, and they focus on that. I just try to stay mindful and keep an eye on my fellow passengers," he said, echoing the theme of in-flight vigilance that thwarted Abdulmutallab on Christmas morning. (See TIME's photo-essay "Who Is Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab...
...interest that Lin has garnered as an Asian-American. Considering the vastly diverse attendance and the number of T-shirts reading “The Jeremy Lin Experience,” it appeared that Lin singlehandedly altered the Bronco basketball experience. While the Taiwanese standout tried to keep his focus on the court, Lin’s teammates ensured that the star took note of the crowd’s heavily-skewed demographic...
...Afghanistan: Having proclaimed it "the right war" on the campaign trail, Obama initially sought to lower the benchmark of success to avoid nation-building or expansive counterinsurgency and instead focus narrowly on preventing al-Qaeda from restoring its presence there. But the commander he appointed to take charge of the war, General Stanley McChrystal, warned the White House last summer that the U.S. side was losing in Afghanistan and requested tens of thousands more troops to stop the Taliban's advance. After months of internal debate, Obama opted to send reinforcements, with the hopelessly optimistic caveat that they would begin...