Word: penns
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...family goes." LaBeouf drew on the memory again for scenes in Disturbia, in which he plays an aggrieved high schooler who attacks a teacher and ends up under house arrest. For all his Hanksian Everyguy appeal, LaBeouf's performances in these two films reveal flickers of Sean Penn--style pent-up fury. "A lot of actors in their 20s don't have that much range," says LaBeouf's Transformers co-star John Turturro. "The world is different now, less rugged in some ways. Everything is facile. But Shia has something else. He's been through a lot." Stardom in youth...
...morbidly obese. Diet and exercise often fail. Drugs are not very effective. And in the end, many people suffer for years only to be left with one last and very expensive resort: surgery. That was certainly the case with Shawn Tarman, a 42-year-old woman from Willow Grove, Penn., who says she'd tried absolutely everything to lose weight. She finally resorted to gastric bypass surgery, a procedure that shrinks the stomach, and lost over 100 pounds...
...years, politicians on both sides of the aisle have exchanged vitriolic and largely baseless insults. Two of the most egregious involved Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) comparing George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler on the floor of the Senate, and Congresswoman Jean Schmidt (D-Ohio) calling Congressman John Murtha (R-Penn.), a decorated former Marine, a coward...
...several of the all-star candidates had unambiguously withdrawn, and many of them decided to throw their weight behind Faust. Sometime in the fall, Gutmann, who had taken the helm of Penn just two years earlier, told the committee in person that she was not interested, according to one of the sources. On a separate trip to Cambridge in early October, she met with Faust, an old friend, over lunch at Upstairs on the Square. Soon after, Gutmann told the committee she supported Faust, the source said...
...stretch in which it went 14-1. Coming into the final weekend of play against Dartmouth, Harvard found itself atop the Ivy League North Division, leading the Big Green by just one game. The Crimson won three of four to clinch the division. The following weekend, Harvard hosted Penn in the Ivy League Championship series. The best-of-three series ended after the Crimson took the first two games, 4-0 and 4-2. For the team’s four seniors, it was the perfect way to end a career at Soldiers Field. “I felt that...