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...insight and I’m glad that he collected all these responses.”Underwood said his own childhood was deeply influenced by his parents. His father is a retired army colonel and any time he was leaving the house, his mother made sure to remind him that “you represent your father, his rank, and his country.” Underwood said he felt a lot of pressure but that it kept him from being intimidated by people of another race.Having the desire to act from early on in childhood, Underwood attended Carnegie Mellon University...
...thousands, it is so inspiring to read about "normal" people performing huge personal acts of generosity, sacrifice and brotherhood. Rather than a European issue (which was broad enough to include a Lebanese woman and an Arab-Israeli soccer player), perhaps you could introduce a special worldwide issue to remind readers that no one is too small to make a difference. Deirdre Smith Abu Dhabi...
...interview subject, Joaquin Phoenix is like a 1940s high school basketball team: after a few minutes, he gives up trying to score and starts running out the clock. Phoenix is most comfortable discussing his approach to acting--a tortuous, self-invented method that involves avoiding people or things that remind him he is not the character he is trying to play. Eventually, having exhausted his favorite subject and parried the introduction of any other, he announces that time's up. The defensive victory is his. At least he's a good sport. During a moment alone with the tape recorder...
...sings, “This old guitar ain’t mine to keep / It’s mine to play for a while / This old guitar ain’t mine to keep / It’s only mine for a while,” as if to remind that both he and his artistic legacy are fleeting...
Still-fresh images of New Orleans annihilated poignantly remind us of the massive disruption and agony that ensues when government “preparedness” fails during natural disasters of regional proportions. I shudder to consider a failure of national and global proportions...