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...role in Magnolia because at the time Anderson was dealing with the death of his father and one of his best friends at the hands of cancer. Though all of these incidents are tragic, they have given Anderson maturity and depth far beyond his years. His films deal with profound, dark and difficult issues, yet they never seem phony. There is an authenticity in almost every scene and line in Anderson’s films that reflect a knowledge that could have only been gathered through first-hand experience. Even the peripheral characters in his films seem genuine?...
Colmes’ husband said he has been flooded with cards from his wife’s former students recalling her profound influence on their lives...
...which ran for two days last week in the gloriously tacky seaside resort of Blackpool, had just about everyone at the Labour Party conference cheering and stomping and forgetting, at least for a while, about all the issues - privatization, civil liberties, war against Iraq - where so many Labourites have profound disagreements with Tony Blair. These annual rituals are a funny mix of theater, trading floor and reunion. You can see Cabinet ministers getting buttonholed by irate local officials or chatting amiably about former Prime Minister John Major's sex scandal as they prop up the bar the night before their...
...massive L.A. Times parking lot has one of Thomas Jefferson’s profound articulations chiseled into its side. His words ought to be written on the walls of every classroom and tattooed onto the hand of every administrator, sort of like a First Amendment “what would Jesus do?” He said, “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter...
...Shattered by the event, Rumi is said to have undergone a period of profound mourning. Then, at a point of near-total hopelessness and emotional desolation, he experienced another mystical intuition. Though physically dead, Shams was in fact not gone from his life at all but more present than ever?on an inner, spiritual plane. "Shams" means sun in Arabic, and in the words of Rumi scholar Annemarie Schimmel: "He who had searched for Shams, the 'Sun of Truth,' in vain, discovered that he was united with him in himself...