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...says. "Then you run it to where, if you were woken up in the middle of the night, you could probably say it backwards. Then you write the whole thing out illegibly and see if you can scream through it as fast as you can, while only having a rough reference of what it is because it's written out like chicken scratch." Oh, and then if you're Downey, you probably improvise a couple of versions that are better than what's on the page and perform those too. "He really, really wanted it," says Susan, 34, his wife...
...ghastly militiaman butchering his enemies with an axe to a huddle of skeletal paupers begging miserably for scraps, "Disasters" exposes the lingering effects - moral, social and physical - of violence. Even for an audience accustomed to the barrage of brutal images emanating from Iraq and Afghanistan, these works, with their rough lines and muted colors, still - amazingly - possess the power to shock...
...salary at a typical law firm starts at around $160,000, compared with an average salary of $45,000 in public interest work. Regardless, HLS hopes that their efforts in funding, like guaranteed funding for summer work, will help continue the increased interest in service-related jobs. A ROUGH ROAD TO TRAVELWhile those studying law are working in public service in greater numbers, their friends in the government sector seem to be heading in the opposite direction.Though it has prepared graduates for careers in many fields, the KSG traditionally aimed to place students at agencies like the Foreign Service...
...antiquated notion that true love or selfless forgiveness are at all necessary for enduring relationships—there can be something far less magical at work. In the case of political marriages, the mere practical exigencies of maintaining a pristine reputation in the public eye and smoothing over rough patches for the good of a party or administration often mean politicians and their spouses are stuck together, for better or worse. In other cases, the influence of money and power creates a situation in which one person in the marriage has his or her interests and ambitions subordinated to those...
...Rough sleepers," as homeless people are known in Britain, are sheltering incognito at many of the world's major airports, says Sandie Cox of Heathrow Travel Care, the organization overseeing the one-year pilot scheme. Chicago's O'Hare instituted a homeless outreach in the 1990s. Several others, including Newark-Liberty in New Jersey and Los Angeles' LAX, have done the same. Heathrow, the busiest airport in Europe, has more delays than most major hubs; the catalog of errors accompanying the March 27 opening of the $8.5 billion Terminal 5--including some 250 canceled flights and 28,000 pieces...