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...THESIS FASHION/SURVIVAL 1) Brush your hair. You don’t want to end up looking like Jodie Foster in “Nell.” 2) Crest White Strips. Coffee stains your teeth and ruins your mind. 3) Stop talking about your thesis with the excited furor of John Nash in “A Beautiful Mind,” because pretty soon you will think that you have met a really fun-loving English guy who really enjoys your love of Edwardian drama but is actually imaginary and you have been writing letters...
...understand the mentality to charge money like that - I mean we are the party of the people," Davis said. "I don't want to be critical and I know they have tough decisions to make.. .but this is almost like a rookie mistake." Davis said the furor over the debate is temporarily turning people off, but he expects they will be there on Election Day for their candidates...
...incident has sparked a furor among average citizens, politicians and historical conservationists, who are demanding to know why the 610-year-old landmark was inadequately safeguarded, especially in light of the fact Korea has already lost more than 90 percent of its traditional non-religious architectural sites over the last century. "There's so little left, it is just heartrending," says Peter Bartholomew, president of the Korea branch of the Royal Asiatic Society and an expert on medieval Korean architecture...
...evidenced by the 2007 election of Alex Salmond, the head of the Scottish National Party (a political party that advocates an independent Scotland), there has been a furor of nationalistic fervor in Scotland. The Kingdoms of England and Scotland were united in 1707 to form the Kingdom of Great Britain under the provisions of the Act of Union. The Parliament of Scotland consented to the union in large part due to the guarantee of Protestant leadership provided for by the Act of Settlement. While neither Salmond nor the vast majority of present day Scots still harbor the anti-Catholic sentiments...
...Still, even after the furor over the film faded, the questions it raised about the tomb unearthed in 1980 continued to make waves among archeologists and Biblical scholars. A leading New Testament expert from Princeton Theological Seminary, Prof. James Charlesworth, was intrigued enough to organize a conference in Jerusalem this week, bringing together over 50 archeologists, statisticians and experts in DNA, ceramics and ancient languages, to give evidence as to whether or not the crypt of Christ had been found. Their task was complicated by the fact that since the tomb was opened in 1980, the bones of the various...