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...currently several unused rooms in Jordan simply because it is viewed as so unattractive. Renovations of Jordan would provide for full use of its housing space. Furthermore, another floor could easily be added. The students slated to be assigned to the new, cramped Wolbach would probably prove much happier in a renovated and expanded Jordan...
...people with bold ideas, we felt a bit as if we were buying stock in them. Having called attention to these budding revolutionaries, we wanted them to do well and have an impact. Now that we're at the halfway point in the series, we can say we're happier than most investors these days...
...then I started typing," she recalls, "and finally a sentence came out where I knew I'd found my voice, and then I had 150 pages." That voice--unsentimental, breezy, blunt--never wavers as she takes us first to her parents' deathbeds and then back to their earlier, happier years...
...conventional standards for romance are deemed irrelevant. The audience, too, learns to stop asking who Adam really is, and whether he should be appreciated or vilified. It is easy to find Adam offensive, even morally repugnant. But the message of About Adam is that we will be much happier if instead, we find Adam empowering. Irish playwright Gerard Stembridge wrote and directed About Adam with the goal of portraying "today's Dublin." By bending the rules of the traditional romantic comedy and pushing the standards of what makes a happy romantic relationship, Stembridge strays far away from the sexually repressed...
...banks, which have found little support among Silvio Berlusconi's center-right opposition, aren't much happier than the consumer groups. Maurizio Sella, chairman of abi, the Italian bankers' association, calls the amended law "unacceptable" because it interferes with the free market. But he is grateful that the decree at least recognizes that a mortgage that is in conformance with the law when it is made ought to remain legal. "If this point isn't clearly upheld, Italian banks may well stop offering fixed-rate mortgages," he predicts...