Word: selfe
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...than someone who sees one. But behind the approachable attitude, Apatow is superintense. He is rarely far from a Red Bull. On the nights he doesn't use sleeping pills, often the only way he can fall asleep is to listen to meditation courses on his iPod. He reads self-help books and rarely uses the words project or idea, greatly preferring the term problem. He's been racked with back pain and had a long bout with severe panic attacks; he'll still sit only on the aisle in a theater, in case he flips...
...female, as well as some viewers, but Apatow insists the female roles in his movies are just as real as the male ones. He's producing films written by and starring Kristen Wiig and Charlyne Yi; if those movies have lots of women calling one another lesbians and making self-deprecating vagina jokes, then Apatow can check off one more box on his self-improvement list...
...Furthermore, new research suggests that a key assumption made in creating monetary incentives for loan modifications - that economic self-interest would make firms eager to modify loans - may be wrong. Economists at MIT and the Federal Reserve banks of Boston and Atlanta have found that about 30% of borrowers who become seriously delinquent on their payments later catch up. A big deal has been made of the redefault rate - the high number of borrowers who wind up missing even modified payments - but the new finding about the large percentage of loans that "self-cure" indicates that servicers might actually...
...really think anyone in this country has reached adulthood without having undergone the humiliation of self-justification to police? As it happens, a few days prior to your arrest, I was pulled over on the highway near Saranac Lake, New York. My husband and I had driven into town for dinner and were on our way back to our camp in the Adirondacks. When I saw that I was being stopped, I said, "I don't get it. I'm going under 55 mph." Nonetheless, when the officer approached the car, I quickly rolled down the window, reached...
Gates talked with Kurdish President Massoud Barzani and other leaders on their home ground in the Kurds' oil-rich, self-ruled area. "We urged them to take advantage of our remaining time in Iraq to settle some of these disputed issues," Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told reporters. (Read "With U.S. Pullout, Iraq Takes Ownership...