Word: personable
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...They're all very watchable, which helps compensate for the necessary cipher at the center. Not that Hanks is bad; there's just no person for him to play. Given that it's the only role the actor has returned to in his live-action film work (he's repeated as the voice of Woody in Pixar's Toy Story franchise), it's a shame that Langdon doesn't play to his strengths: the fretful and impatience that rise to heroism. Here he's a simple conduit for information, the docent on our tour of Roman churches...
...case, though, is that this isn’t a puppet show Christmas special or a child’s folk tale—this is reality. As scripted and replete with emotional cues for obedient audience members as her journey has been, Boyle is still a real person with a real back-story. It’s this reality, lurking behind the crafting inherent in all “reality” TV, that should give us pause before we swallow wholesale the narratives that networks feed...
...three different acupuncture treatments. One group received individual care in the classic model of the ancient Chinese practice in which the acupuncturist analyzes the patient's overall health by studying his body and lifestyle, taking his pulse and looking at his tongue (practitioners believe that the condition of a person's tongue is indicative of his total health state) and designs a customized set of acupuncture points that are most likely to relieve pain...
...response to one question about the changes in teaching fellow and teaching assistant hiring, Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris said that the College plans to make a current 18 person per section target rate more of an “average” than a “maximum...
...Hammonds said that students now have the chance to apply to be a part of for one of two 16-person College Working Groups, which will consider further changes to undergraduate education and student life...