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...Ohio. Benson set the series' tone, offering girls a heroine sleuth with brains, courage and a cute boyfriend. Her editor later claimed authorship of the books--saying she had outlined the plots and heavily edited the manuscripts--thus creating another mystery. But Benson was not irked. "I'm so sick of Nancy Drew," she once said, "I could vomit...
...already know that intellectually. But the video makes this noxious logic searingly real. I sweated through every moment of watching the damned thing. I paused it every few seconds and paced, checked my e-mail, went downstairs to kiss my baby son - anything to avoid it. I felt sick and angry - at the killers, the Phoenix, myself...
...families of suicide bombers. “I think that this attempt to criminalize the care of widows and orphans is a very underhanded way of pursuing a political agenda, and that it is absolutely unconscionable to attack an organization that takes care of the poor, the sick, because you disagree with the causes that may have contributed to these people’s destitution,” Yasin told The Crimson earlier this year. Now, he says he does not know enough to feel comfortable either supporting or condemning HLF: “On one hand, I know firsthand...
...your graduation ceremony and, at several points during the first week of June, they will embarrass you. Especially your grandparents. They will fuss over you and ask you if you’ve eaten and tell your roommates stories about that time when you were little and got sick from eating paste. They’ll brag about all the wonderful things you’re doing after graduation and tell anyone who will listen that you’re going to save the world someday...
...families of suicide bombers. “I think that this attempt to criminalize the care of widows and orphans is a very underhanded way of pursuing a political agenda, and that it is absolutely unconscionable to attack an organization that takes care of the poor, the sick, because you disagree with the causes that may have contributed to these people’s destitution,” Yasin told The Crimson earlier this year. Now, he says he does not know enough to feel comfortable either supporting or condemning HLF: “On one hand, I know firsthand...