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...Super Bowl: Britney appears between Pepsi delivery trucks, face hidden by a cap that she promptly tears off and flings aside as her dance crew appears for a tightly choreographed number. She sings “bah bah bah bah bah, bah bah bah bah bah…the Joy of Pepsi, yeah...
...reading a book. He showed off his skills yet again with 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel and the first of three films he made with Jude Law. "He was a brilliantly talented writer and director who wrote dialog that was a joy to speak and then put it onto the screen in a way that always looked effortless," Law said in a statement. "He made work feel like fun." Law and Minghella also worked together on another adaptation, 2003's American Civil War epic Cold Mountain and Minghella's last big-screen...
...shutout. The two combined for 29 saves. Quinnipiac also subbed out McGann for its third-string goaltender, allowing the crowd at Bright to see the fifth goalie of the night and prompting the trumpet section of the Harvard band to blare out “Ode To Joy.”The Crimson rounded out its offensive display with nine minutes to go in the third when junior forward Steve Rolacek took a rebound and scored the 11 and final goal.“We’re real happy and excited about tonight’s game but tomorrow?...
...chief pleasures of owning used books is inspecting their margins for the scribblings of the previous owner. Snide jokes, charming irrelevancies, cheers of approval and disapproval—all of these little things bring a kind of vicarious joy to the second-hand book connoisseur. But the best commentaries are the really, really stupid ones...
Still, lack of control doesn't necessarily mean lack of joy. "The research also shows that most people consider themselves happy most of the time," says University of Edinburgh's Bates. "We're wired to be optimistic. Most people think they're happier than most [other] people." And even if you aren't part of that lucky majority, Bates says, there's always that other 50% of overall life satisfaction that, according to his research, is not genetically predetermined. To feel happier, he recommends mimicking the personality traits of those who are: Be social, even if it's only with...