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...Number of dollars that U.S. credit-card holders owe today...
...rules of the administration is to give a longer term perspective of people who have spent more time here and sometimes, inevitably, those things conflict with what the students want because we haven't seen as much as they have. At the least I think we owe them some degree of respect for the attainments that they have to become Harvard administrators. It's not easy, guys...
...Beach Boys' other legacy includes Belle and Sebastian and a host of other indie and foreign follow-ups, all of whom owe a debt to the Beach Boys in both instrumentation and nostalgia for the romanticism of puberty. As a result, the Beach Boys have actually enjoyed some critical attention in the '90s, usually focusing on ther instrumental experimentation which so closely foreshadows the wall of soothing-sound popularized by today's quasi-techno chill-out groups...
...After all, in addition to accurately describing a life, biographies give the reader a chance to get into some famous person's head. Two current bestsellers probably owe their success to this phenomenon: When Pride Still Mattered, the story of Hall of Fame Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, and John Glenn: A Memoir, the life of the former Mercury astronaut and former senator. Both of these books are about people who lived lives far removed from that of the average book-buyer, making the chance to relive their lives all the more thrilling. In the case of the current...
...more interested in discussing his newest feature, The End of the Affair, an adaptation of a Graham Greene novel, starring Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore and Jordan favorite Stephen Rea. When it's pointed out that Rea has appeared in eight out of his ten films, Jordan deadpans, "Well, I owe him an awful lot of money from a bet years ago." When pressed on why Rea was right for the part of Henry, the film's jilted husband, Jordan replies, "I needed a strong and incredibly subtle actor for that. It's not an attractive part--men don't like...