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...York to have a wonderful and successful career,” she says. “According to my mom, I’m going to New York to wait tables.” Until then, she’ll keep playing off people’s misguided notion that Toni Braxton is a relative. “Unfortunately, there’s no relation,” she says. “Then maybe I’d know what I was going to do next year and she’d set me up with a backup deal...
...Henry wanted ETS to push the envelope and research what testing could measure beyond verbal and mathematical skills,” Horne said. “Henry had a notion that you could begin testing a person who was quite young and use testing to help him make informed decisions about his life, not just college admissions...
...notion that fairy tales are simple stories for simple minds is long out of fashion. It is now common academic practice to see the tales as models for, and mirrors of, cultural concerns, representing and commenting on social realities. Reading a scholarly take on a fairy tale, as an adult, is rather like looking at the ingredients list on a package of lunchables: it tasted fine when we were kids, but now that we know what’s inside, it’s hard to believe we ever got it down...
While the world discusses the ethics or lack thereof involved in taking on Iraq, a simple question is being ignored. Forget about the economic motivations; they're a way of life. What course of action would result in the greatest good for the greatest number? The notion that the end justifies the means may be a little simplistic, but the gist is right. While we enjoy the freedoms and relative financial comforts afforded us by our various Western governments, let us not forget that those freedoms were fought for and bought with blood--not by us but by those with...
...details of her life. But it's her ongoing feud with Golden that keeps ruffling kimonos in the literary world. An update: in 2001, Iwasaki sued Golden for breach of contract and a tarnished reputation. The ex-geisha, who now runs a furniture-restoration business, calls the notion that geishas are prostitutes "ridiculous," and was angered at the sex-for-money in Golden's novel. She also objected to the fact that Golden credited her as a source in his acknowledgments; she insists he had agreed to keep her identity a secret. The case is still pending. Geisha, a Life...