Word: sparking
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...Perhaps what distresses me most about Ben?s appeal is that while the world?s 15-year-old girls seem to find him irresistible, I find him bland. More important, perhaps, I find him wholly lacking that ineffable spark that makes a movie star a movie star. I am willing to consider the possibility that I?m not seeing that spark because I?m getting old. Ed Harris does it for me - so does George Clooney. Ben Affleck does not. Is this a rite of passage nobody told me about...
...Hence my grave concerns that Ben is simply in over his head these days, traipsing through Hollywood for no other reason than that Matt is there, too. I?ll put it bluntly. Matt Damon has that movie star spark. Ben Affleck does...
...steering committees and running capital campaigns, which may make parents feel committed, have a negligible effect on kids' achievements. Much more fruitful are the connections parents make with their children at home, dissecting what happened in class that day or puzzling over an assignment together. And teachers can help spark those discussions. In a yearlong study, Epstein tracked 700 Baltimore middle schoolers from families with little formal education whose teachers imposed a new rule: the students were required to discuss their language-arts homework with a family member. Result: higher grades and more enthusiastic writers...
These findings, like many of Snowdon's earlier conclusions, will undoubtedly spark a lively debate. As laboratory scientists and clinicians are quick to point out, cause and effect are notoriously difficult to tease out of population studies like this one, and exactly what the emotion-Alzheimer's link means has yet to be established. But even hard-nosed lab scientists admit that the Nun Study has helped sharpen the focus of their research. The study has impressed the National Institutes of Health enough that it has provided $5 million in funding over the past decade and a half...
...oozed into Vietnam, starting with President Harry Truman's decision to subsidize the French in their futile effort to retrieve their Asian colony. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy deepened our involvement, reiterating the "domino theory," the dubious notion that the collapse of Vietnam would spark a global wave of communist triumphs. As he escalated the commitment, Lyndon Johnson cautioned, in his typically gaudy rhetoric, that defeat would compel us to retreat to the beaches of Waikiki; his aides, whether or not they believed it, dutifully echoed the party line. Only afterward did Robert S. McNamara, the former Defense Secretary...