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...It’s a gift. I could never have gotten into Harvard because I can’t think logically, I can’t reason. But I’m rich in imagination, inspiration, intuition. That’s the gift of dyslexia...
...easy to snort at the fate of a very rich man being handed a $161.5 million parting gift, or to find satisfaction in his dramatic comeuppance. O'Neal's tendency to play golf by himself has been held up time and again as a sign of a disconnected and friendless manager who would eventually have been undone anyway...
...hedge on such a fundamental question would seem like a gift to Democrats eager to paint the Bush Administration as torture-happy. But the answer actually has Dems in a tight spot. To take a hard line against torture, they have to vote against an otherwise qualified candidate. A lot of centrists will rightly argue that no nominee is likely, with partial knowledge, to denounce a technique the boss may have approved. If Democrats approve Mukasey, though, they will have handed Bush a double victory: they would confirm his candidate and compromise their own moral clarity in the process...
...risk of suffering the same fate. That's why, say friends of Wilson (Chuck) Lucom, who died last year at 88, the eccentric U.S. millionaire left as much as $50 million in his will for poor children's charities in Panama. It's the largest private gift ever made here. The will doesn't single out which relief organizations will be recipients. But, as the director of a charity that may benefit says, it could have a "tremendous impact on our ability to save these children...
...scream. Scenes such as these paint Lucas as far more hotheaded and ferocious than Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone; he rarely spares anyone (whether family or stranger) his physical wrath or his ultra-focused coldness. Even on his wedding night, he ignores his wife, burning an innocent gift from her that jeopardized his drug-lord identity.Nevertheless, the spurts of violence and the explicit examples of drug use are muted by Scott’s use of bright, saturated colors in costuming and setting, which fit perfectly into the 70’s era funk-feel of Harlem. Additionally...