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...semicolon can keep her from her meandering linguistic path. In the middle of her runaway sentences, Beyonce usually interrupts herself with deep, rolling spasms of laughter. Whether the subject is her tendency to forget lyrics while performing, her lack of time to devote to a boyfriend or her profound inability to play guitar, every utterance arrives with its own disruptive laugh track. Then there are the pauses--earnest, eyes-drifting-into-future-space jobs that can stretch 10 or 15 seconds. Thus a typical Beyonce sentence goes, "As far as acting ... I want to ... hmm ... play some kind...
...Dean Illingworth has a profound respect for and love of Harvard, and believes that what we have received from the past is a valued heritage,” Lewis wrote, “that even as the College must constantly adapt, adjust, and move forward, we have much to learn from those who came before...
...line on security, but it helps when the tough talk comes from someone he trusts. Sharon's Mr. Security is Avi Dichter, head of the Shin Bet, Israel's domestic spy and security service. (The Mossad handles foreign intelligence.) According to Israeli intelligence officials, he has had a more profound effect on the Prime Minister's handling of Palestinian terrorists than any other adviser. "He has the Prime Minister's ear," says a senior Israeli security official. With 27 years' service in the Shin Bet, the mild-looking Dichter, who once worked as an undercover, in-flight security guard...
...tell stories from the Bible as compelling as Harry Potter," says John Fleming, minister of First United Methodist in Henrietta, Texas. Many have found embedded in the books all kinds of biblical imagery. "If you read these books carefully, they are not only not evil, they are profound stories about good, and they are deeply religious," argues Baylor University philosophy professor Scott Moore, who started by reading the books to his kids and ended up staying up late to finish for himself...
...with nervous intakes of breath. Not until 4 a.m. did we dare move again. We crossed the biting-cold river in our underwear with our packs humped on our shoulders and our clothes slung round our necks, then we marched 12 hours to a road where, to our profound relief, a car awaited...