Word: remarkes
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...assertion that "at many schools it is now profoundly uncool to be seen as anti-gay" is extremely misleading. Not a single day passes without my hearing "Dude, you're a fag" or some other gratuitous homophobic remark. America's schools are not gay-friendly...
...says Hinkle. “You can miss so many little things if you don’t take in a film the way filmmakers intended you to see it.” Matt Cowal of Landmark Theatres, which operates the Kendall Square Cinema, was quick to remark that attendance is down this year at all theatres, and that this larger cultural shift in film habits may be at least partly responsible for the hurt felt by the Brattle. The influx of convenient home video services like Netflix—which make varied film libraries all the more readily available...
...Stephen Wolfram—the creator of the software package Mathematica—credited common sense with the success of his company, Wolfram Research. One of the bigger names to speak was Steve Wozniak, who narrated the early history of Apple, the company he co-founded. He paraphrased a remark that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs once made: “It doesn’t matter if we make money or not. We’ll have a company that we could call our own.” He then added, “that?...
...excessively accurate but not as trite as it might be. The ironic witticisms are amusing, for a few chapters. There is considerable emotion, consciously restrained quite subtle. Experts may pronounce the book a masterpiece of sex-frustration psychology. But the reader is very much inclined to echo a remark that is one of Jake's favorites and, presumably Author Hemingway's too, "Oh, what the hell...
...terrorist Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). And while nearly everyone in France agrees the threat is serious, there are quibbles about how imminent it is. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy proclaimed that the risk of an attack "is at a very high level." Some see in that remark political opportunism, or at least exaggeration. "The threat is real and constant, but it has not grown significantly higher of late," remarks one French counterterrorism official. "There was a little bit of grandstanding in some of his comments." Still, there is reason for concern. An offshoot of Algeria's ultraviolent Armed...