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...seen as somewhat controversial. What's the balance between being confidently assertive and overly aggressive? -L.J. Evermann, Lincoln, Neb.It's not part of my conditioning as a woman and as a Catholic-school girl to ever be disruptive. The only thing that gives me the courage to do things-because I'm a shy person-is the idea of living with myself afterward. At the 1993 Academy Awards, when we talked about the Haitian refugees being held in Guantánamo, I could barely breathe...
...nearby KFC outlet, one woman asks about the cheapest menu options, then asks for a discount. The counter girl tells her there's no bargaining and shoos her away. Nearby, three friends who work together at a fishing tackle factory sit at a high table and ponder their options. They had showed up early in the morning for a 6.30 p.m. train home to Chongqing, but despite a day of waiting on line, they still couldn't get through the throng into in the station in time. "We're wondering if we should stay or go," says Jiang Jinan...
...your protagonists, who would it be? -Luis Garcia, Celaya, MexicoI keep going back to Rudy Baylor from The Rainmaker. He got out of the legal profession, found a girl, packed up his car and said, "I am out of here." That is what I always wanted to do when I was a lawyer. I never wanted to go back to the office...
...more importantly, as she tours South Carolina, speaking on behalf of her husband, she has become the real-life example of Obama's soaring rhetoric. "I was raised in a working class family on the South Side of Chicago, that's how I identify myself, a working class girl," Michelle told a group of students at the University of South Carolina Wednesday. "My mother came home and took care of us through high school, my father was a city shift worker who took care of us all his life. The only amazing thing about my life is that...
...tries not to focus on race or the historic nature of his candidacy, his wife has no such qualms. In front of black audiences, like one at Benedict College in Columbia, she takes on a much more strident tone. There on Sunday she marveled at how a "little black girl from the south side of Chicago" could be "the next First Lady," she told the audience to a standing ovation - one of four she received during her that speech...