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...simpler things. Edward Cole, played by Jack Nicholson, and Carter Chambers, played by Morgan Freeman, meet in a same hospital room where their very divergent lives are thrown into sharp relief. Cole, a billionaire who just happens to own the hospital, is a man who lives by breaking the rules??always taking what he wants before considering others. The contrast with Chambers, a hard-working mechanic who has sacrificed his own happiness for that of his wife and children, is less than subtle. But despite this trite beginning, “The Bucket List” sustains itself...
Following the election commission’s ruling, Willey criticized the opposing Sunquist-Sarafa campaign for what he perceived as their nit-picking approach to the rules??a practice which he said took away from the substance of the elections...
Although Jessica Coggins’ “Where Narcissism Rules?? (Oct. 3, oped) paints her as a proponent of “reasoned debate,” the columnist failed to formulate one coherent critique of the campaigns she implied were self-promotional. Coggins’ editorial insinuated that last year’s hunger strike, part of the Stand for Security campaign, should be classified as narcissism, not true activism, a categorization she borrowed from Bill Maher. Coggins fairly paraphrased the TV host, but provided an obscured description of her classmates’ actions. Coggins contrasted...
Explaining the house’s “drinking rules?? at our introductory meeting, for example, was quite awkward. A proctee invited me to go out to a bar with him and a few other men of, shall we say, “advanced” age and I had to respectfully (he is my elder, after all) decline his invitation...
Those “drinking rules?? I had to explain at that first meeting? None to speak of, considering everyone’s of age. Add to the fact that they’re mostly from abroad—England, the Netherlands, Japan, Australia and Greece, just to name a few in my entryway—and it’s clear that their alcohol consumption is much more akin to “civilized social norm” than the “get-trashed-and-throw-up” mentality that seems to rule in American...