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...return in defeat to their villages. Eventually, they pay hefty membership fees to join the Junior Artists Association. "Ambition can be like that," shrugs 42-year-old Suraj, an extra who fondly recalls his best role: as a dying soldier in a now-forgotten epic, he had the camera linger on him for a whole second. "You want to be something, and end up something else...
...oral contraceptives, found that those who did had no greater risk of developing breast cancer than those who didn't. It made no difference when the women first took the Pill, how long they took it, the dose or even whether breast cancer ran in their family. Concerns still linger, however, for women ages 45 to 64 on hormone-replacement therapy. Women who smoke and take hormones also face a greater risk of heart attack. --By David Bjerklie...
...dead week, a ten-day limbo of booze and nostalgia where Harvard Seniors linger between their last finals and Commencement
...Apple of my Eye” and “Those Crimson Tears” are immediately appealing. Yet it is the album as a whole and its centerpiece, the seven-and-a-half-minute-long “Beneath the Heart of Darkness,” that linger longest. Projecting a mood of muted, melancholy hope, there is something subtly uplifting in these beautiful songs...
...sifted from the supporters who hide them, feed them and join their ranks. This fight is likely to be patchy, frustrating and drawn out. "The world again sent the firewood for fighting in Afghanistan," says Hajji Mullah Sahib. "And sure enough it ignited. The smoke of this fire will linger for a long time...