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...published in the New Yorker two weeks before their wedding. "Franny" is about one of the Glass sisters who realizes that she can't abide the jerk she's dating, a smug young Ivy League academic, and flees to the bathroom of a restaurant where they're eating to seek the refuge of an endlessly repeated prayer...
...notch a total of 13 on the season, the Crimson is currently in eighth place in the ECAC, with only four points separating Harvard from league-leading Union. With merely nine ECAC games left, it’s clear that anything could happen in the standings as the Crimson seek to gain a coveted first-round bye by finishing in the top four of the ECAC...
...addiction is marked not simply by poor decision-making in the face of temptation, but also by a sense of powerlessness before one's own compulsive behavior. There are many types of sex addicts, including so-called sexual anorexics who avoid physical intimacy with their partner and seek it out in fantasies or with others. Despite the shortage of statistics, researchers agree that the vast majority of sex addicts - over 90% - are men. Rob Weiss, founder and executive director of the Sexual Recovery Institute in Southern California, estimates that up to 5% of Americans deal with some form...
...including teachers. But while it does that, the U.S., and its international partners, can help expedite the process by launching an international scholarship program. Not just to the U.S., as the Fulbright program does, but around the world. Yes, there is a possibility that scholarship students will abscond or seek asylum - the program will have to take those risks into account. But every year donors will be able to quantify the money spent on education and, in a generation or less, not only Afghanistan but the U.S. will begin to reap the rewards...
...camera simply had to capture. The striking quality in Simmons was the waywardness of her beauty: a triangular face dominated by large eyes and high cheekbones leading to a small, voluptuous mouth that could be sullen or amused. Her attitude promised a challenge to any man who would seek to love or tame her. That's clear in the 1946 Great Expectations, where her Estella calls Pip a "coarse little monster" at one moment and says, "You may kiss me if you like" the next. She steals Pip's heart, and breaks it, with the same cool smile...