Word: manners
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...work, La Perdida has an unusual style for comix: Unlike most of her fellow North American graphic novelists, Abel doesn't use humor, irony or traditional comic book genres. Instead, she has created something all too rare in the medium: a realistic drama for adults told in a straightforward manner. The approach makes sense for a book which spends so much time exploring the nature of authenticity. "In gringolandia you have irony for everything," says one Mexican character, "so you can look at it and know what to think...
...maybe Sittenfeld purposefully depicted her in this manner. After all, Lee does not identify with the reporter’s blind villainization of prep schools. On the contrary, Lee feels pangs of guilt at having unwittingly dragged Ault’s name through the journalistic...
...this very personal calling that the 180 MDiv students at HDS are trying to discern. In an environment where they are given the academic and religious tools to discover their true paths in life, these students are learning that the ministry takes all kinds and fills all manner of vocations.They might face stringent institutional barriers or personal uncertainty, but all are set on a path to find their calling...
...task force, ?she may be dealing with a lot of pressure, from family, boyfriend, husband. We have a situation in which the woman may be getting so much pressure she?s not thinking clearly.? The doctor, on the other hand, ?should be operating in a calm and collected manner, have identified all the risks to the woman; he?s counseling the woman. We think its appropriate to place a greater burden upon the doctor...
...used to justify the continued detention of Guantánamo prisoners," said Marc Falkoff, a lawyer with Covington & Burling who represents 17 of those detainees. Says Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, another of the lawyers in the case (al-Odah v. United States): "Mr. al-Qahtani's statements were elicited in a manner that undermines their credibility entirely. The logs reveal that, with a single day's exception, al-Qahtani was the victim of sleep deprivation that usually lasted a full 20 hours a day for seven straight weeks...