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...Michael Moore, it’s curious that audiences want to sit through narratives about long-hidden secrets and OWM that clearly can’t trust the public with anything. Many moviegoers excited about seeing National Treasure would scoff at the suggestion that noble Bush could hide anything or engage in nasty OWM behavior. Perhaps it makes people more comfortable seeinag these narratives in a fantasy world. And this is surely a fantasy world. The BFS, which really is just the treasure itself (making the film far less exciting than the revelatory, guilty-pleasure wonders of Da Vinci...
Then there are the notebook purists who scoff at pricey paper, like Virginia A. Fisher ’08. Fisher converted to yellow legal pads in high school after finding some in her house. “Once I started, I really liked it,” says the vintage-garbed redhead as she browses the aisles of Bob Slate on a late afternoon. Her simplicity pays off—when her TF is handing back problem sets, she can pick hers out of the pile fast...
...faith and strength. But religious faith is the implicit Republican solution to the personal traumas of the middle-class squeezethe fact that overworked parents are scared to death that their unsupervised kids are taking life lessons from the sex, drugs and weirdness spewing from their televisions and computers. Liberals scoff, but the balm that comes with being part of a religious communitythe Bible study, youth groups, choirs and, yes, the moral absolutes that often accompany such communionis real and comforting, unlike the promise of complicated and expensive government programs...
...strength. But religious faith is the implicit Republican solution to the personal traumas of the middle-class squeeze-the fact that overworked parents are scared to death that their unsupervised kids are taking life lessons from the sex, drugs and weirdness spewing from their televisions and computers. Liberals scoff, but the balm that comes with being part of a religious community-the Bible study, youth groups, choirs and, yes, the moral absolutes that often accompany such communion-is real and comforting, unlike the promise of complicated and expensive government programs...
...deeply concerned." A rafting trip down the length of one of Australia's last, and greatest, wild rivers seemed a natural progression from a 10-day bushwalk around Tasmania's tough south coast last year. There I'd trudged for hours through thigh-deep mud, learned to scoff at leeches and icy, slanting rain, come to love instant mashed potato, and fallen hard for the island's wild beauty. If you didn't even have to shoulder a backpack, how difficult could sitting in a raft be? "Don't worry about the paddling skills," the tour company's owner...