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...failure (if one must pinpoint a single cause) is in the attempt to imbue contemporary stereotypes with a sense of drama. Coppola has attempted to transform a John Grisham thriller into a series of quirky character studies. There is no doubt that the author will watch this new adaptation and smile radiantly as the events unfold incoherently on screen. As long as directors keep trying to top each other in an effort to make a semi-competent film, he'll keep writing his crowd-pleasing prose and run all the way to the bank...
Throughout the months of treatment, I frayed Joe's nerves with my fretting over each test and procedure. What if I messed up again on the twice-daily urine tests, designed to pinpoint ovulation, each of which required an hour of vigilance as I transferred the specimen between three vials at precise intervals? What if my luteinizing hormone surged before we received the results of Joe's latest sperm tests? Would the doctor still proceed with the intrauterine insemination? Timing, of course, was of the essence; miss the narrow window of opportunity and I would be sentenced to weeks...
There was more of the same soon after as a pinpoint pass from midfielder Keren Gudeman found Miller racing away from a George Mason defender, but goalkeeper Jamie Pagliarulo came off her line quickly to snuff out the opportunity...
...security: more guards, better fences, metal detectors, no-parking zones around key buildings. At the CIA there is a big, new guardhouse outside the gate. The agency has also beefed up what is probably the most effective line of defense, its efforts to gather every sort of intelligence to pinpoint terrorist plots before they can be carried out. The Counter Terrorism Center, run by the CIA and FBI, has been expanded and put on round-the-clock operation...
...improve many aspects of the educational experience here. And, as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz notes, "The evaluation team is helpful to us by giving us suggestions that we might not otherwise have thought of." We hope that the following suggestions will help the NEASC team to pinpoint structural flaws within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the betterment of all who are or will be on the road to receiving A.B.s and S.B.s here...