Word: karma
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...runs a peach farm. Lily is dreamy, wistful, self-hating and suicidal; T. Ray is a sullen beast, punishing the girl by making her kneel on grits (coarse-ground corn meal, to those of you - those of me - who are ignorant of Southern cuisine). Lily has her own roiling karma. No question, she is bad luck for the people she loves. Two of them die violently, two more are attacked by racist whites. Lily wants to die too; and when she runs away and discovers the Caribbean-pink house of the three Boatwright sisters...
About 20 minutes into director Robert Weide’s new film, Kirsten Dunst asks Simon Pegg, after he steals her boyfriend’s seat at a crowded bar, “Do you know the meaning of karma?” He clearly does not, but after nearly two hours of such inane dialogue, any limited notion of karma should, at the very least, earn me a free lunch in the next life. “How to Lose Friends & Alienate People,” the movie adaptation of Toby Young’s memoir, stars Simon Pegg...
...think this is karma for people who thought their career plans were more concrete than mine, that I was building my dreams on a cloud for studying humanities,” Julienne R. Coleman ’11 said. “Now we’re all on the same level. We’re all unsure about the future...
...Just Karma, Man Excuse us for going all cosmic, but a Cubs title just feels right in '08. Think about the year we've had in sports. A classic Super Bowl between the New York Giants and New England Patriots. Tiger Woods winning the U.S. Open, in overtime, on one leg. The Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA finals. Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer at Wimbledon. Michael Phelps. Usain Bolt...
...karma, though, that caused Karadzic's arrest to happen when it did. For years, prosecutors at the Hague have considered the Serbian government more interested in protecting Karadzic and Mladic than in finding them. That changed in early July when the coalition government led by President Boris Tadic took power in Belgrade. Tadic had narrowly defeated hard-line nationalists at the polls on May 11, aided by promises from European Union leaders that Brussels wanted to open the door to Serbia's eventual accession - provided Belgrade cooperated in bringing Karadzic and Mladic to justice...