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...Everything has gone smoothly so far—knock on wood!” said Horan, attributing the success of the production so far to “a phenomenal cast, design team and staff.” She added, “Working with a large cast like this is always challenging, as is the coordination of a large staff, but our producers and design teams have worked unbelievably well to make this show come together...
...lead characters as “M” and “Lady M.” If one should violate this rule, then either the specified blessing must be said immediately, or one has to leave the theater, turn around three times backward, and then knock on the theater door, and wait to be let back in. Seriously...
...male boulevardier is usually there just to enjoy the view. But on occasion, on impulse, with no internal debate on the matter, we'll do a 180 and follow some passing knock-out. It's not predatory, just an expression of the atavistic male urge to be a hunter-ogler. (Women's urges are typically defined as natural, men's as primitive. We know it's true, and we shrug.) I've asked lots of people if they've ever suddenly diverted their path to follow a member of the opposite sex. Every woman I've asked has said...
...status as the 500lb gorilla among the world's militaries gives the U.S. the wherewithal, even when acting alone, to knock over just about any regime of its choosing - even if Iraq has served as a reminder of the difficulty of pacifying an occupied country. Still, the primary component of the administration's preferred strategy for curbing Iran and North Korea's nuclear ambitions is to use sanctions to make the cost of going nuclear prohibitive to regimes whose survival depends on integration with the world economy. But the U.S. hardly trades with Iran or North Korea, so a meaningful...
...outsource sucking. Set up a Yale in Malaysia, pay your professors in grams of lint and watch the profit margins soar. Yale might even be able to compete with Harvard’s endowment, but only if it could teach its “students” to sew knock-off Harvard hoodies on the side. In any case, Yalies currently huddled behind New Haven’s neo-gothic would end up at the same place: working the milkshake machine at that Dairy Queen...