Word: lara
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...Faster, Lara!” cried The Stable Boy, whispering into the ear of his Moorish mare...
...Even though Virginia handled Harvard at the No. 3 position, the Crimson’s No. 1 and No. 2 teams proved to be formidable challenges. In the No. 1 slot, Schnitter and Peterzan did away with the Cavaliers’ team of Amanda Rales and Lara Alexander, 8-6. At No. 2, Virginia barely edged Ko and Rosekrans, 9-8 (2). In the singles portion, Harvard tied the match score at 2-2 with big wins from Ko and Rosekrans. Ko knocked out Amanda Rales, 6-0, 6-3, and Rosekrans kept her undefeated season alive by defeating Hampton...
...jumpy. Crucial elements of the film fail to develop, leaving the audience confused. The older Dominic acts much too frail in his performance, and such affectations detract from the film’s overall coherence. Dominic’s few interactions with his estranged love Laura (Alexandra Maria Lara) further splinter the film’s cohesion. Ignored for most of the film, their relationship is left very much unexplained, which hinders the audience from connecting with his character or sharing in his joy decades later, when he finds her again. Lara churns out a good performance in her more...
...time is the learned ability to push buttons rapidly while swearing and forgetting to bathe. And even a state school Communications major can recognize the picture of the scantily clad woman on the front cover for the miserable escapist fantasy that it is: that’s no Lara Croft knockoff, that’s the digital version of the cheerleader that broke Mr. Dibbell’s heart in 10th grade. Unfortunately for the author, while his precious “digital l00t” may in fact have real market value, all the gold doubloon clipart...
Farming out such child-rearing responsibilities may make traditionalists uncomfortable, with critics equating it to "paying people to do these tasks instead of doing them out of love," says Lara Descartes, a family-studies professor at the University of Connecticut. But rather than being a sign of laziness, this trend signals "an escalation of expectations of what it takes to be perfect parents," says John P. Robinson, a co-author of Changing Rhythms of American Family Life. Married mothers, for example, spend an average of 18 more hours a week at work than they did in 1965, mostly...