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...captain. The fancy flowers and frocks from the premiere became bouquets and wedding dresses, and 20 km offshore, to the sounds of a porno flick being shot on a nearby island, Ramsay and her boyfriend, rock musician Rory Kinnear, said "I do." "I think the whole thing cost 20 quid," she says. "It felt like a Fellini film." It's no surprise that Ramsay's life takes surreal twists. So do the lives of the characters in her films. Morvern, which opens in the U.K. on Nov. 1, tells the story of a supermarket drudge in a Scottish seaside town...
...Unfortunately Harvard has really decided to make all negotiations part of a quid pro quo,” he says. “All relations start with building a foundation of being a good neighbor...
...Attorney James Comey, who announced the indictment in New York City, alleged that Tokhtakhounov "arranged a classic quid pro quo: 'You'll line up support for the Russian pair; we'll line up support for the French pair; and everybody will go away with the gold, and perhaps there'll be a little gold for me.'" The gold for Tokhtakhounov, Comey said, was to be the renewal of his expired French visa--which he never got. A simpler explanation might be that this tough guy was doing a favor for an even tougher mama...
...start looking for a realtor in some distant Arab capital), and little for the Palestinian in the street to hang on to. And for those moderate Arab regimes allied with the United States, the speech is likely to be a bitter disappointment. For the Egyptians, Saudis and Jordanians, the quid-pro-quo for ending the conflict had been an Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 borders. What they got was an exhaustive set of political and security demands on the Palestinians in exchange simply for a return to the dead-end situation of September 2000. President Bush sounded a clear warning...
...last criterion is not so crass as accepting a parent's proffered check, but the difference is only of degree, not kind. In 20 years or 50, loyalty is expected to breed generosity. Usually it does. Like stealing bread and sleeping under bridges, Rev. Platt's error - linking the quid too closely to the quo - is one much easier for the poor to make than the rich...