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...finally, just as no one friend can meet all your needs, let go of the notion that your parents can. Focus on what they do provide, and get your other needs met by a spouse, a friend or another relative...
...nothing to lose. He has enough cash to keep him competitive for months, enough antiwar volunteers to keep Meeting Up and enough political savvy not to get overconfident. He also has that High Yankee yearning, that great fear of the titled that, as Kesey writes in Sometimes a Great Notion, "a man might struggle and labor his livelong life and make no mark! None! No permanent mark at all!" Dean may not be a maverick, but he may be something better: a real contender. Zounds. --With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr. and Nathan Thornburgh/Burlington
...notion that Magdalene was pregnant by Jesus at his Crucifixion became especially entrenched in France, which already had a tradition of her immigration in a rudderless boat, bearing the Holy Grail, his chalice at the Last Supper into which his blood later fell. Several French kings promoted the legend that descendants of Magdalene's child founded the Merovingian line of European royalty, a story revived by Richard Wagner in his opera Parsifal and again in connection with Diana, Princess of Wales, who reportedly had some Merovingian blood. (The Wachowski brothers, those cultural magpies, named a villain in The Matrix Reloaded...
Feldman rejected the notion that tripping would have caused him to break through the glass window...
...director of the 10-year-old College Alcohol Study—whose research was cited in the decision to ban kegs from the Harvard-Yale Game last year—concludes that so-called “social norms” marketing, an anti-alcohol program based on the notion that most college students overestimate their peers’ drinking, does not effectively control alcohol abuse. But some researchers and social norms proponents say the report’s results are flawed, alleging that Wechsler’s methodology is skewed toward a favored outcome...