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...project, a remake of the 1973 cult horror film The Wicker Man: "This time it's going to be less about religion and paganism and more about - surprise! - men and women." And he's still writing plays as feverishly as he did in college. There are no plans to slow down or go soft. "That's what you're asking me for, whether you know it or not," he says. "You're not coming to the theater just to see two boring hours of somebody's life. I'm giving you the highlights." Give the audience what it wants: that...
...that is about remembering how frustrated and hopeless I felt when I was 30 and didn't think I'd ever be able to do what I wanted to do," Hornby says. "My first book was published when I was 35, so everything feels quite recent to me. The slow, poor, what-the-hell-am-I-going-to-do-with-my-life part seemed to last quite a long time...
During his time at Harvard, Gould developed an evolutionary theory known as “punctuated equilibrium,” which suggests that the process of evolution is broken up by short periods of relatively rapid change and is not slow and steady as once thought...
...voters don't like what they are seeing now, they aren't going to be any happier with what happens next if the nuclear option passes. Filibustering is not the only tool the minority has to slow business to a crawl. The Senate last week got a taste of how harsh nuclear winter might be when Democrats invoked an obscure procedural rule to cancel all committee meetings, where the bulk of Senate business gets done. They have also threatened to require full Senate votes for even the most mundane business, a move that could put the brakes on the G.O.P...
...analyzed. Taken as a whole, claims Horton, the litany of atrocities may add up to ethnic cleansing of Burma's minorities like the Karen, the Karrenni and the Shan. "What's taking place in Burma is not mass killing like in Rwanda," he told TIME. "It's a slow, indirect form of destruction...