Word: personable
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...irony seems only a result of hyper-focused preoccupation with her own life. When the situations she finds herself in are instead rendered from an objective perspective, it ceases to suggest she’s creating the plot-like quality of her life for herself. The use of third person lends an enhancing element of dramatic irony through seeing both Jessica and Marcus’s processing of the same present events and histories as they diverged from the same point.“Perfect Fifths” renders an interesting balance between intimacy and distance of characterization...
...activists argued for expanding hate crime laws at a panel in Sever Hall last night, stressing the current difficulties of navigating the U.S. legal system as a transgender person...
...with a BlackBerry who wanted to compare the opportunities for junior politicians at Harvard and Brown and a girl wearing six scarves who wanted to tell you about all the high-school theater shows she had revitalized with her post-Foucaultian directing style. You are just a normal person. It comes out in the course of conversation that you don’t even play the violin...
There's nothing like live radio. I like the challenge. Throw it my way. Let me go! I can read something in five minutes, digest it and put it back at ya. Like today, who knew? I got a caller today from Paris. No ifs, ands or buts - the person is listening to me on Air America in Paris. Rock on. When I taped the Montel Williams show, yeah, I did seven different countries, but I didn't have the world. I've got the world now through Air America and I'm going to fire...
...bosses at the FBI and pulled out of the interrogations. This led to a rift between the Bureau and the CIA that has not fully healed. Yet Soufan says that if any CIA officials are prosecuted for the use of harsh techniques, he "will be the first person to defend them." The real blame, he says, lies with "those who told them it is legal to do such things...