Word: minding
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...astronaut; I grew up in a neighborhood where everybody was an astronaut. So it was like being told, You are not eligible for a club that everyone you know is a member of. I was shocked and horrified there briefly, but then fairly quickly made up my mind to say, Hey wait a minute, these guys can't tell me whether I'm allowed to fly into space or not. And so if I'm not going to be eligible to go with NASA I'm just going to have to find...
...rewarded here," says Keith Parker, a 41-year-old African American who runs the city's wildly successful transit system. "It takes away the stereotypical fears about Southern cities." Charlotte might not be New York or London yet, but it's over its Snickers problem. "We don't mind when the competition thinks we're Mayberry," says McCrory. "We're happy to be America's best-kept secret...
...deranged mania, is the fuel to terrorism’s apparently unstoppable machine. “It is not merely violent in tendency,” Amis writes. “Violence is all that is there.” It is a despicable yet undeniably powerful state of mind, one that swallows up all other thought.In the volume’s longest essay, “Terror and Boredom: the Dependent Mind,” Amis interweaves his analytical plot of the development and effects of radical Islamism with the personal story of a novella he had abandoned, called...
...ignores—that message.To the extent that “Choke” has one, the movie’s saving grace is its cast. Rockwell, in his second top-billed role after George Clooney’s 2002 sleeper gem “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,” fills Victor’s slime-caked shoes with appropriately intelligent and acerbic abandon. Rockwell excels at playing the sane man on the ship of fools, and it’s a testament to his talent as an actor that Victor flirts with his own psychological undoing...
...move the ball from Harvard into Holy Cross territory, ultimately resulting in Pizzotti’s game-winning touchdown run. Relative inexperience may have made Crimson coach Tim Murphy hesitate a bit when going to his young wideouts for big plays. But there was no doubt left in his mind after witnessing the fine showing the two sophomores posted, confirming his suspicions that Iannuzzi and Lorditch could be very prominent players as league play begins Saturday. “To see those guys be able to play poised, mature football at a high level really adds...