Word: kieran
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...they pout and grin, there's one thing all child actors have to be able to do: relax. If you place an ordinary kid opposite Mel Gibson or Susan Sarandon and yell "action," he'll get as stiff and shaky as a screen door in a gale. Rory and Kieran Culkin, younger brothers of Home Alone star Macaulay, don't know from stiff. In this month's Igby Goes Down, in which they play the same prep-school rebel at different points in his life, they seem as at ease on camera as most people are on their couch...
...former President Burhanuddin Rabbani. The latest confidential U.N. report on security, seen by TIME, concludes that a full-fledged "power struggle" is under way. "Those elements that have the most to lose from a stable and democratic order in Afghanistan have begun to react," U.N. undersecretary for political affairs Kieran Prendergast says. Moreover, in the run-up to the June 22 loya jirga, or grand meeting of all Afghanistan's regional elders, which will decide who succeeds Karzai's administration, tension is only expected to increase. Against the warlords, the frail 87-year-old former King Mohammed Zahir Shah...
...James last month, parishioner Mary Pellicano talked about the excesses of a "Dragontails" birthday party she and her husband George recently gave for their son Kieran, 4. "All the paraphernalia, the goody bags--it was over the top," Mary recalled. "Then Kieran hinted he'd have been just as happy playing hide-and-seek with a few friends before the cake. I realized I wasn't doing this for him--I was doing it for me! It was just another way of trying to keep up with the new SUV next door...
...Only one character manages to make sense of the suffering, a pilgrim named Luka, brilliantly played by Kieran Fitzgerald '03, who drifts into the inn in the first act and out before the fourth. Luka preaches a doctrine of benevolent suffering in the face of rampant injustice. Luka guides some of the drifters to dream of a better life in a distant future and of helping people in the present instead of drowning in cold, hard realities. Fitzgerald's Luka is gentle and his good humor is radiant. Even with a shock of blond hair he cuts a better wizened...
...program to send poor children to private schools. Forstmann's appeal lies in the fact that he could pay his own way, but G.O.P. strategists insist money won't be a problem. "If you or I ran against Hillary Clinton, we'd raise $20 million in no time," says Kieran Mahoney, a consultant close to the G.O.P. leadership...