Word: phenomenonal
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...play in “Driving to Zigzigland,” being shown on Oct. 6, 5pm at Kendall Square Theatre. A hungry, edgy Arab football team wins the Israeli national cup in “Hardball.” The Boston Palestine Film Festival will become a yearly phenomenon, according to its organizers—no matter how controversial its films may be.As Roy Cohen ’10, an Israeli citizen, says, “I am very happy that some of the films are shown in Coolidge Corner Movie Theatre, as it is located in the center...
...spent about a third as much time with his kids as the average mom did. By 2000, that was up to three-fourths. The number of stay-at-home fathers has tripled in the past 10 years. The Census counts less than 200,000, but those studying the phenomenon say it's probably 10 times that number. Fathers' style of parenting has changed too. Men hug their kids more, help with homework more, tell kids they love them more. Or, as sociologist Scott Coltrane of the University of California, Riverside, says, "Fathers are beginning to look more like mothers...
...recent broadcast of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” America’s perennially cynical libertarian launched into a diatribe protesting the recent phenomenon of lactivism. Yes, lactivism...
...politics - I don't mind saying there is a very strong Latin component to it. I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina. But Eva was a unique phenomenon in Argentine history, so I'm not foolish enough to compare myself with her. Women of my generation owe her a debt: When we came of age during the dark [military] dictatorship of the 1970s, we had her example of passion and combativeness to get us through...
...Iran’s treatment of gays. A clown cowering behind his podium, Ahmadinejad claimed, “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country. We don’t have that in our country. In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon. I don’t know who’s told you that we have it.” The audience could only laugh. Bollinger questioning, combined with Ahmadinejad’s utter lack of engagement, sent a strong message to the audience that his world view is not grounded...