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...natural part of both students’ lives. “I can’t imagine not doing it,” O’Brien says. The constant cycle of lesson-taking, training, and competing—on top of demanding schoolwork—can prove stressful. Both Fallon and O’Brien said that they would only take a week’s break after competing at the World Championship: Nationals are coming up in July, and soon the competitive cycle will begin anew. Nevertheless, each freshman’s enthusiasm for dancing and everything related...
...hydrangea. She now correctly reads the hydrangea’s signification as her father’s attempt to ground his itinerant lifestyle choice, his affirmation of a self that doesn’t fit neatly the prototype of the Indian-American widower: “It did not prove to Ruma that her father had loved her mother, or even that he missed her. And yet he had put it there, honored her before turning to another woman.”This theme of learning to live, love and lose transnationally—introduced in the work?...
...estimated $1 billion in 2007). Tata is buying Jaguar just as the company has finally broken its repetitive mold and released a car that is truly new and modern looking. Some analysts say Tata's timing is perfect, and that if it manages the British manufacturer well, it could prove to be very profitable...
...effect of charity: not only the material good it does the recipient but also the spiritual good it does the giver. Its contestants seem to have been chosen as much for their backstories and challenges as for their ability to help others: there's a paraplegic out to prove that she has no limits; a woman in a midlife crisis; a man who uses one challenge to seek out the help of his estranged father, who grew apart from him after a divorce. On Big Give, reality TV is not just a vehicle for giving stuff away...
...emotion of a contentious primary to rustle the feathers of the electorate and get voter participation up, so be it. The past few months have seen troops of idealistic activists, young and old, manning phones and canvassing constituents for their candidate of choice. Might this race for the nomination prove more thrilling than the one for the White House? Probably not, but commentators and onlookers alike have already experienced more thrills than they did in all of 2004, and it?...