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From personal experience as a participant in the new ESPP junior tutorial, I am witnessing the fact that this major effectively integrates natural and social sciences in a coherent, practical and informative manner...
Roosevelt possessed a similar rapport with the American public, said Goodwin. His manner benefitted him politically, but also reflected a general reluctance to disappoint anyone, said Goodwin, who is currently working on a biography of the former president...
...treats the romance that grows between Berlin and Helena the same way. They edge toward connection tentatively, in full but unspoken awareness of the difficulties of their relationship. Nor is the suspicion of mad and more deadly passions visited upon either of them in the manner of Fatal Attraction or Basic Instinct. Evil is what it is supposed to be in fictions of this kind, an outsider, and the business of the narrative is to restore order in the community that evil has disordered. In other words, Jennifer 8 is adult entertainment in the best, traditional sense of the term...
...contains, among other matters, madness, incest, something very close to fratricide and an abortion the consequences of which reverberate down the years. All of this is reflected in Crick's face and manner -- full of suppressed torment -- and in the eerie, sweetly stated hysteria of his barren wife, Mary (Sinead Cusack), who endures false pregnancies and indulges in kidnapping in an attempt to fulfill her need for motherhood...
...hard financial realities: newly privatized electric companies are switching to gas-fired generators or foreign coal. But many Britons, already knee-deep in the cold, hard realities of recession, were not prepared to see the remaining workers of a once proud industry further savaged in such an uncaring manner. Major even came under attack from renegade Tories who threatened to vote with Labour to overturn the decision -- and put the government's survival in jeopardy. After six days of unrelenting derision, Major made a humiliating retreat, suspending the closure orders on 21 mines and ordering a thorough review...