Word: selfe
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...movie is “bad.” Though some might try to give this latest martial arts melodrama the benefit of the doubt and call it “ironic,” “Ninja Assassin” has few fleeting moments of conscious self-deprecation. Its only redeeming characteristic, its constant flow of gasp-inducing, gory fight scenes, is undermined and rendered largely impotent by the frailty of its plot and characters...
...Road” maintains enough of the book’s central story to keep its audience enthralled while splitting its real attentions equally between creating a stunning visual spectacle and meditating on the book’s broader themes of love, redemption, and the human capacity for self-destruction...
...merely the old, poor, and vulnerable who lack access to quality insurance and care today. Those who suffer from the high costs and limited scope of the system are seemingly some of the most “vital” groups in the country: working-class families and young, self-employed entrepreneurs. Those who are un-wealthy are at high risk to be unhealthy, but those who merely work hard outside government and corporate safety nets also need a powerful dose of reform. It’s difficult to say we’re doing well by pioneers when...
Assuredly, one might respond that what anti-reformers worry about is future vitality: If our spirit of self-reliance does not wither with further government coddling, our debt from reform will destroy the can-do spirit of our posterity. And yet, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the bill passed by the House would reduce the deficit by $109 billion over the first decade, and the Senate bill would reduce it by $127 billion—not to mention the other, more difficult to quantify elements such as the excise tax on high-cost insurance that will bring down...
...incarceration inadvertently provided authorities and media 300 pages of a "prison diary" to examine for clues to her mentality, scribbled on a legal pad, "In prison, you do not become a beautiful person unless you have an inner light that guides you." Italian photographers captured her note-to-self. (Read about Amanda Knox's testimony in court...