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...Simmons, the film is stolen by the pimp-and-gigolo team of Dean and his Brad (Dustin Milligan of “90210”). The first 30 minutes are held together by the stringy threads of Affleck’s beard. His balancing act of caring friend and self-interested opportunist creates a comedic rhythm that carries the film. And just when the comedic burden of the movie becomes too much for Dean, in walks Brad the gigolo. Brad’s simpleton nature (he ditched a career in landscaping because he prefers round-the-clock sex) creates...
Applications to model are due Friday, September 11, with a Harvard casting call the following day. If you plan to apply, is it recommended that you request Di Pasquale as a Facebook friend so that Diamond can "see your natural look and learn more about you." Hey, why not? They'll be seeing you naked anyway...
...silence: one fall morning in 1993, none of the doctors at the Burundian hospital where Deogratias Niyizonkiza worked showed up. War had erupted, forcing the promising medical student to embark on a harrowing flight through the bloodstained hills of Burundi and Rwanda. Armed with a ticket bought by a friend's father, he boarded a plane to New York City--where he arrived with no English, no contacts and just $200 in his pocket. Facing hunger, homelessness and heavy odds, the young refugee--propelled by the kindness of strangers--rose from the streets to Columbia University in two short years...
Hungry for Afghan pistachios, I stopped by a shop where the owner, a friend, assured me that everything was fine, thanks to Allah, for him and his family. Then, in a whisper, he told me that his brother was kidnapped and held for 20 days before the captors and the family could agree on a ransom. Now he and his brother, who survived the communists, a brutal civil war and the Taliban, are thinking about quitting the business and leaving Afghanistan. "It doesn't look good," he told me, and over the years I've come to trust his merchant...
...many years appointed seasoned politicians to the Embassy in Japan - Senators Mike Mansfield and Howard Baker, former Vice-President Walter Mondale and Speaker of the House Tom Foley. The pattern was broken when Baker retired after George W. Bush's first term, and the President appointed Tom Schieffer, a friend and business partner from Texas; Obama has followed suit with the appointment of John Roos, a lawyer and Democratic fundraiser from Los Angeles...