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...fairly substantial Harvard acting career, Clark nonchalantly downplays his achievement. “I tend to always play the same character,” he says. “The strong, male character.” Clark derives great satisfaction from his ability to help produce plays and sooth conflicts among members of the cast, and his abilities are well appreciated among members of the Harvard theater community. After graduation, Clark hopes to stay in Boston and find a job in the tech department of a theatre, where he can continue to utilize these talents. “Theater beats...
...Until Monday's grand gesture, the more the authorities tried to sooth, it seemed, the greater the panic. With no sign of the run on Northern Rock ending - savers have so far yanked out well over $4 billion - the panic began to spread. Alliance & Leicester's stock plummeted by almost a third on Monday despite a statement insisting its business was solid; shares in Bradford & Bingley dropped by 15%. Desperate to restore order, the U.K. Treasury put its own money (meaning the public's money) down. "I want to put the matter beyond doubt," Darling said. Customers' cash held...
With the stress of shopping period comes the release of the weekend. But students seeking to sooth their frayed nerves by partying found that the hottest spots were shut down in the early hours of the night...
...reasons that Mob stories resonate with us civilians are well rehearsed: loyalty, honor, family, bada-bing, bada-boom. Their audience--especially men--uses them as a source of secondhand machismo and Machiavellian sooth. What's curious, and a little pathetic, is that the same elements appeal to mobsters. But the movies became an attractive model for them only when real Mob life was on the skids, attacked from without by the feds, eaten from within by rats. The Godfather I and II were nostalgia movies, harking back to the glory years of a racket whose best years were behind...
Shah Mohammed’s quiet, forthright manner helped him sooth the tension and grief unleashed by the terrorism, other prominent Muslims at Harvard said...