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...station, a bigger problem is download time. Even compressed files tend to impose unbearably long waits for people stuck at the end of standard modems. Hint to video e-mailers: use the low-quality resolution, which creates smaller files. Hint to everyone else: most e-mail programs let you reject messages larger than 40 kilobytes. Do this...
...richest, strangest creature is Lucia, a twisted spinster who loves gay men (most especially her dead brother) with the desperation and security of caring for someone who can never accept her and thus never reject her. She thinks of herself, of course, as the one normal person. "You have a death wish," she tells Bill. "That's so selfish. I have one too, but I direct it toward others." Lucia could be just comedy's favorite device, the useful fool, but Kudrow makes her funny and sympathetic. Her body language is eloquent--she walks like a constipated stork when...
...happier life in the hereafter. James' entire education came at the hands of the Jesuits, who did a better job with him than they may have intended. By the time the young Joyce graduated from University College, Dublin, in 1902, he decided he had learned enough to reject his religion and all his obligations to family, homeland and the British who ruled there. Literature would be his vocation and his bid for immortality...
...about 40 applicants last year," Silberstein says. "We always reject about half of our applicants because we only want to accept teachers who will really dedicate themselves to their students in order to maintain a high-quality program...
...thus reject the contention that today's generation simply does not care. But that does not mean everything is hunky-dory. Far from it. Blacks and whites are still treated far from equally. In many places, the civil rights of gays and lesbians are in question. A women's right to choose is threatened daily. Guns are still available far too readily. And though the economy is strong, Bill Gates and his ilk are reaping more than their fair share as thousands continue to toil from dawn to dusk, day after day, merely to make ends meet...