Word: paule
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...brother Paul, who's eight years older, were Harry Potter fans. In fact Paul had always thought the characters from Harry Potter would make a great band: Ron on guitar, Hermione on bass, Hagrid on drums (natch) and Harry up front. "We'd kind of been talking about the idea but never done anything," Paul remembers. Joe and Paul proceeded to become this band. In one day, the brothers wrote, rehearsed and performed six songs about life at Hogwarts. The set list included "Platform 9 and ¾" and "Wizard Chess." To solve the personnel issues, or possibly compound them, both...
...Angela's Ashes walking tour in Limerick, and the university there awarded him a doctorate. He spent three months as a writer-in-residence in London, at the Savoy Hotel, and another term at the American Academy in Rome (during that time, he met Pope John Paul II and rather embarrassedly knelt and kissed his ring). But by all accounts McCourt himself was in no way transformed by his success. Though that doesn't mean he didn't enjoy it immensely. "I wrote a book about growing up miserable, and the next thing I know I'm here," he said...
...Primary care has never really been a major emphasis, although I think on a global basis, Harvard has put a major emphasis on reaching out to the rest of the world," said Martin P. Solomon, an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the Brigham. "People like Jim Kim and Paul Farmer are all very important and have had an enormous impact on primary care worldwide, but in our own backyard, Harvard has had very little impact. [Primary care] is not as glamorous, but it's the grease that keeps the system going...
Distancing the agency from a project with Cheney's fingerprints was politically astute. "As a good politician, Panetta probably knew that [Cheney's involvement] was precisely the reason we should get nervous about it," says Paul Pillar, a former deputy director of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center...
...Paul Pillar, a former deputy director of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center, points out that when a new director takes charge, it falls to senior officials to figure out what he needs to know and when. "You have officials one or two rungs down who have to decide what the boss needs to see first and what can wait," he says. Though not shocked that Panetta wasn't told until June 23, Pillar adds, "In retrospect, the [Cheney] angle ought to be sufficient grounds for someone to think, This does deserve the boss's attention...