Word: role
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Wasikowska, the Australian who was superb as a suicidal teen on the HBO series In Treatment, brings a soft-focus regality to her role. Emotionally, though, her Alice is a bright child, a preteen in a late teen's body, as if she had suddenly sprouted by nibbling a magic cake. Her Wonderland dream is an escape from social strictures back to the freedom of childhood, and not imprisonment but liberation...
...Abhisit's Democrat Party came to power in December 2008 after a court dissolved a pro-Thaksin ruling party for electoral fraud, and some lawmakers formerly loyal to Thaksin defected and formed an alliance with the Democrats. Military leaders reportedly played a role in inducing the defection, and that scenario has Thaksin supporters characterizing the government as "unelected." Abhisit and security officials were monitoring the protests from an Army base in Bangkok, which the protesters have said they will surround if he does not resign...
...House plays a much larger role than simply serving as a place to sleep and eat,” McIntosh writes. “It is difficult to separate the Harvard College experience from the residential experience...
Weissman was selected for the award, bestowed annually by Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe, on the basis of her contributions to the field of neurobiology and for her role mentoring and inspiring students at Harvard...
...wonderful as an advisor and has a personal interest in all her students,” said Francesca R.L. Reindel ’11, secretary of WISHR. “I think having a ceremony to honor an inspiring role model can bring women in science together as a community and motivate us to move forward...