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...delightful brogue that adds flair to this relatively easy course. Fun tip: Sneak some Lucky Charms and a bottle of Jameson whiskey into lecture, and you’ve got the perfect atmosphere to do some Irish learnin’. If you’re looking to stay sober and just get this Core out of the way, “The Rome of Augustus” is a painless gut. The lectures are pretty entertaining, but you can probably sleep through them (yes, they’re at noon) and still do fine. This course will also save...
...watched the Clinton Administration botch snuffing out al-Qaeda on the first of ABC TV's two-part miniseries The Path to 9/11, hundreds of Canadians crowded into a Paramount multiplex theater to see the Toronto International Film Festival's world premiere of Death of a President, a sober fakeumentary from Britain's Channel 4 that imagines the assassination of the current President Bush in Chicago on Oct. 19, 2007, and depicts it in footage so persuasive that some viewers may need to give themselves a reality-check pinch...
...Howard and his key ministers are not aggressively selling the latest public offer; it's a more sober T-time. The prospectus will most likely focus on the company's strong balance sheet, a plan to cut 12,000 jobs and the building of a zippy new mobile-phone network; Telstra's board has promised to pay a dividend of 28? a share for the year to June 2007. On the downside, Telstra resembles an antediluvian creature, raised when fixed copper lines were king and competition on lucrative products was insignificant. It's unlikely the sale managers will have trouble...
...Funny, He Never Seemed Sober," your Aug. 21 People item about Robin Williams falling off the wagon: It's very poor sportsmanship to kick a man when he's down. Williams was mensch enough to go public with his drinking problem instead of hiding it as 99% of celebrities do until it graces the front page of the tabloids. I see his admission as a strength, not a weakness. SANDE ANFANG Half Moon Bay, Calif...
...January midnight, you may have a moment of sober clarity and self-awareness. You will ask yourself important questions, inquiries like, “Why am I running naked in a crowd of a thousand people?” “How do I tell my doctor that I’ve gotten frostbite—there?” and “Why are there so many elderly spectators with cameras...