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...disassociate themselves from Maines. Briefly, in the film, Emily has the attitude of the good student who doesn?t care to be kept after class because the bad girl mouthed off. "If anybody asks me - ?I didn?t say it. Talk to her.?" But that?s not really an option. "We?re a sisterhood," Emily says. "We go through the good, the bad and the ugly all together...
...pages), she is settled in once more among her postwar Catholics, telling the story of John and Mary Keane and their four children, a family saga that spans three decades, from the end of World War II to the 1970s. Vietnam makes its lethal appearance, and abortion becomes an option that even Catholic girls exercise, but don't come to this book looking for the Beatles or J.F.K. McDermott's preoccupations go much deeper than baby-boom artifacts, deeper even than mere history. What is it, she wonders, that holds together the loose fabric of our lives...
...measure of the Administration's unity on Iran that confrontationalists like Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have lately not wandered off the rhetorical reservation. Everyone has been careful--for now--to stick to Rice's diplomatic emphasis. "Nobody is considering a military option at this point," says an Administration official. "We're trying to prevent a situation in which the President finds himself having to decide between a nuclear-armed Iran or going to war. The best hope of avoiding that dilemma is hard-nosed diplomacy, one that has serious consequences...
...That was not an option that Chrisitianity granted to Islam when the roles were reversed in Southern Europe. The best-known forced conversion of Manuel?s century or any since was not executed by Muslims, but by the Spanish Christian monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella, who served Spanish Moors (and Jews) a convert-or-leave edict in 1492 and then backed it up with the Spanish Inquisition...
...entrance into Harvard’s Class of 2012 will not benefit from. For the Class of 2010, Harvard admitted 21 percent of its early applicants, but accepted only 9.3 percent of its regular applicants. “I think that by deciding to take away the early admissions option, Harvard will in a way be reducing its appeal to some top tier applicants who are seeking security in knowing where they’re going,” Phillips Exeter Academy junior Conor P. Flynn said. Not having the option to separate oneself into an early applicant group...