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...going to take a lot of searching to find anything interesting about my life, but within half an hour I was unabashedly thrilled by my own adventures. Far stranger, Strauss was too. In addition to superfast writing and the ability to mimic other people's voices, his artistic gift is that he finds everything interesting. Even my sex stories. Although it's possible his gift is pretending to find everything interesting. After I told him about first hooking up with my college girlfriend, Strauss said something similar had happened to Navarro at the Playboy mansion. "Except Navarro was also shooting...
...assigned. And our hours of sleep have dwindled, as we are sure yours in University Hall have as well. So having today as a day of rest, to read and write and do problem sets and maybe sleep and laugh with friends for a moment, is not a gift that should go unacknowledged...
...have argued - and the Committee's own statement suggested as much - that its purpose is to enhance the President's authority to press forward on his peace quest in the Middle East and beyond. In truth, however, the Nobel confers no recognized authority on the laureate, only attention - one gift President Obama most certainly does not need. But even if the award does nothing for Obama's ability to achieve his goals, some observers hope it will reinforce the President's will to press for peace. Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, peacefully resolving the Iran nuclear standoff, and ensuring long...
What Mulligan has that makes her stand out from other professional beguilers is a warm gaze with laser intensity, and the gift of thought transference: the viewer always knows what's going on inside her characters. She doesn't turn on the starkest emotions but finds them within her. When she gets the news of her brother's disappearance in My Son Jack, her devastation is both extravagant and acute; too much seems exactly the right amount. Her Nina in The Seagull wore emotions so raw that Mulligan was in a sluice of tears for nearly the entire evening...
Mahmoud Abbas is not in the business of doing favors for his bitter rivals in Hamas, which is why the Islamists may have been more taken aback than anyone else at the massive political gift presented to them on Oct. 2 by the Palestinian Authority President. At the instruction of Abbas, the Palestinian delegation to the U.N. Human Rights Council withdrew support for moves to pursue war-crimes charges over Israel's January offensive in Gaza, effectively shelving U.N. action on an inquiry led by former international war-crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone that accused both Israel and Hamas...