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Ultimately, though, the women say their site isn't meant to dissuade parents from joining in on the online fun. Leitenberg says her relationship with her father has even - gasp! - grown closer since he joined Facebook. Instead, sites like MyParentsJoinedFacebook are meant to help parents avoid common pitfalls. "We want people to know that when they get that friend request, it's O.K. to say yes," Brooks Adickman says...
...insistence that his agents be stouthearted men, not wily, patient predators. Incompetence caused the bungling of more than one stakeout. Some agents also made use of what the bureau called "vigorous physical interviews" - torture during questioning - as if Billie were an al-Qaeda suspect at Guantnamo. (The one gasp from a preview audience exploded when Billie got viciously slapped by an FBI agent.) (See the top 25 crimes of the century...
...those early pronouncements did not help to pave the way to a functional working relationship between Warren and the people she was supposed to oversee. Former Treasury officials seem to despise her and complain that Warren is only trying to advance her own agenda by using the panel for - gasp! - social good. "When a person in that position doesn't really try to reach out and communicate and then goes out and gives interviews, it becomes clear this is going to be an antagonistic relationship," says a former Treasury official. "She's coming at this in terms of a gotcha...
...elemental satisfactions in its blend of movie genre that could appeal to wide segments of the audience. For Hollywood's core demographic, this is a serial-killer thriller, not far from the Saw series in its devoutly clinical depiction of distressed bodies. (See the eyeball on the floor! Gasp as plump rats snack on a dead Cardinal's face!) For adults who are or were Catholic, the movie is a backstage story of Vatican politicking, à la Monsignor and The Godfather Part III; it paints the College of Cardinals as possibly the only ruling body older and more removed from...
...Instead of cutting the library AND the shuttle, can't we just fire a bunch of Harvard workers?” (GASP! The audacity...