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...lots of hair. She looks kind of like Jo Jo the Dog-Faced Boy. She's pretty hairy, and she's been homeschooled because her family doesn't think she is going to succeed socially in school. But she's very plucky, and she wants to have a normal life, so they reluctantly allow her to go to school. I was working on this a few years ago as a short story, and it kind of overflowed its boundaries...
...signal honor in my life, a sign that my life is returning to normal,” he said. “It’s a great for me and I’m humbled...
Chilean students will apply directly to the pertinent Harvard program and be accepted according to normal Harvard admissions procedures. The Chilean Ministry of Education through Becas Chile would then award scholarships to the Chileans whom Harvard would have admitted. The Chilean national science foundation, “CONICYT,” will implement the merit-based Chilean selection process. There is no Chilean government cap on the number of students that it could fund at Harvard; the number will depend on how many Chileans Harvard admits. The Chilean government will award fellowships based on financial- need guidelines that follow those...
...deputy communications director Dan Pfeiffer, the more hyperbolic attacks on health-care reform this summer, which were often covered as a "controversy," flipped an internal switch. "When you are having a debate about whether or not you want to kill people's grandmother," he explains, "the normal rules of engagement don't apply...
Cruise snuggled into the back row of the classroom and "assumed an attentive posture." Students, the creepily omniscient HLR reports, threw Cruise a few smiles but immediately resumed their "normal classroom activities": note-taking, hand-raising, "GChat"-ing, and—very weird, Harvard Law Review Record—browsing Net-a-Porter and Bergdorf Goodman. And then, "From time to time they would steal a sidelong look at the glowing actor." (Okay, so who thinks the author of this article was actually in the classroom when this all happened and was simultaneously shopping for a new Donna Karan shift...