Word: friendships
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...when you are constantly assessing your best friend. Of course, it’s natural to look around a room to compare and contrast (I’ll admit it, people-watching is one of my most favorite pastimes), but it’s another thing to have a friendship based in part on jealousy. You should not feel you need to look outwards to gauge your own “status,” “image,” or “progress...
...well, bland. “We didn’t want [our rooms] to be sterile,” Ching says. And COOP mirrors and Abbey Road definitely wouldn’t fly. They immediately set to work transforming their suite into a dorm-sized shrine to travel, to friendship, and to sex. Ching claims to have “a queer eye” for style; both are deeply interested in aesthetics. He calls their room “warm” and “sexy,” while she describes their style...
...primacy. But as well as summarizing the ways different administrations have chosen to use America’s power, Walt charts the ways other countries deal with American primacy. From North Korea’s nuclear “blackmail,” to the 2001 “Friendship Pact” between Russia and China, to the influential Israeli, Indian and Armenian lobbies in Washington, other states have found many ways to undermine or take advantage of America’s immense power. Walt’s reasons for advocating a more restrained American foreign policy are purely...
...Hasan abducted and shipped to his native Pakistan for interrogation: the rationale is that in Pakistan the Geneva Convention’s prohibitions on torture are inapplicable, and Hasan can be subjected to coercive violence if need be. Hasan is tortured, repeatedly. He finds his only solace in friendship to Khalid (Charles Daniel Sandoval), a fellow detainee, who offers him food, water, and, most significantly, membership in a terrorist cell. Hasan initially refuses, but when the film cuts three years into the future Hasan and Khalid are in the final stages of planning for a multi-phase bombing...
...first expansion site, though it is looking to add more locations in the Boston area this year. The original b.good has been open for less than two years and is located in Boston’s financial district. The independently run restaurant is the product of a life long friendship. Ackil and co-owner Jon J. Olinto made plans to start their own businesses when they first met in the fifth grade. Ackil and Olinto maintained their friendship into adulthood, but at times, it appeared their dream of owning a business might not materialize. After graduation, Ackil put his independent...