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...determination with which Lorna chases her dream and the persistence with which Dobroshi has pursued hers. For one thing, the actress and her character share an almost defiant joy of living. There is a scene in the film in which Lorna and her boyfriend dance exuberantly, oblivious to the mess they are in. In the same way, Dobroshi and her friends wouldn't let the dangerous circumstances they grew up in stop them from having a good time. "It was like we were leading two lives," she says. "On the one hand, you would go out with your friends...
...pressing challenges from the defense industry, which has become alarmingly powerful through its indirect control over procurement policy. The Bush administration’s tenure in office was marked by the rapid proliferation of no-bid contracts between the Pentagon and numerous defense contractors; the result was an ugly mess of a procurement program that failed to achieve any noteworthy successes. The Rumsfeldian fracas over up-armored Humvees—which failed to appear in any appreciable quantity in the Iraqi theater of operations until more than four years after the beginning of combat operations—is just...
...thought winter was over? Yeah, that's what we thought when we saw the Dunster igloo—for a while the grand fixture of the courtyard—reduced to this pathetic little mess two days...
...territory. Like Kerry, a growing cadre of politicians and statesman - most recently, E.U. foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Friday - have visited Hamas-controlled Gaza to survey the wreckage. And while most will ritually eschew contact with Hamas, they are well aware that cleaning up the humanitarian mess left by Israel's incursion and rebuilding Gaza will require reaching a modus vivendi with the organization, whose popularity among Palestinians continues to grow. Ironically, perhaps, a military campaign to break Hamas' grip on Gaza may, instead, have forced many of Israel's allies to recognize the futility of efforts to topple...
...It’s going to be a little more laborious for us,” Nitschke said, as the notice also asked staff to be more “conscientious” about cleaning up self-created mess and washing food-encrusted dishes in the kitchens located on each floor...