Word: inners
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...problems but not actually doing anything to solve them. So I formed Students Serve, a national nonprofit organization run by college-student volunteers, to provide service grants to students. At this point, our grants have enabled college students to start a shelter for abused women, teach art classes to inner-city youth, create interactive history lessons and begin a wheelchair-recycling program. We the people can choose to make a meaningful difference by serving our nation and fellow human beings. Angela Perkey, WILLIAMSBURG...
...indentured servants to them. The most agreeable myth of the movie, directed by Peter Sollett and scripted by Lorene Scafaria, from a novel by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, is that spending a night in New York City can crack the shell of stereotype to reveal your utterly cool inner life to someone who turns out to be your soul mate. For Nick, that would be Norah Silverberg (Kat Dennings), whose top-girl hauteur masks her discontent with every punk-star wannabe who wants a recording contract with her music-producer father. She doesn't need leeches; she wants...
...willing to delegate responsibility to technocrats within his administration. Meanwhile, he has started to deliver on the antigraft vows that got him elected. This month, a top prosecutor with the attorney general's office was sentenced to two decades in prison for accepting bribes. Even members of S.B.Y.'s inner circle are under scrutiny: two of his Cabinet members are being investigated for allegedly receiving payoffs, while another was sacked in May because of suspected links to another graft scandal. Indonesia is still deeply corrupt. But the perception that S.B.Y. is taking the problem seriously is boosting business confidence. From...
...million handicapped. "I think the Paralympics is great, because it shows that people with disabilities like us are pretty much like normal people," says Fan Chunhe, 23, who has been blind since birth. He came to Beijing five years ago from his village in the mountains of Inner Mongolia. "I wanted to go out into society," Fan says. "In the mountain valley there was no opportunity to work." In Beijing, he found a job as a masseur. "As a blind person, massage is something we can do. We'd like to do other work," he says. "Others...
...there aren't enough of those moments. Instead, we get plenty of cringe-inducing inner ruminations (such as Theroux's particularly creepy thoughts on the inherent eroticism of the uniforms that female train-ticket attendants wear in Japan), and breathtaking generality - the best example of which is the bizarre rant at the very end. On the last page, Theroux writes this: "Most of the world is worsening, shrinking to a ball of bungled desolation. Only the old can really see how gracelessly the world is ageing and all that we have lost...