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...they could just tickle each other. Sparks is generally stingy with the carnal pleasures, and in Dear John we're to be diverted by matters of great societal significance. Savannah is interested in special education, in part because her neighbor at the beach, the appealingly humble Tim (Henry Thomas), has an autistic child and John has a slightly autistic father (it was Asperger's in the book). In both cases, the bad wives have fled, scared off by the autism, presumably. Richard Jenkins plays John's dad, and though the role doesn't require him to do much more than...
...corner, we have the Harvard Registrar informing us that:“All degree candidates must fulfill the requirements of one of the recognized fields of concentration, an approved joint concentration, or an approved special concentration.” Want to major in art history and English? First, have a thesis in mind. Petition both departments, and you might get approved. You’d like to concentrate in economics and mathematics, you say? Transfer to Columbia...
...special report on the science of appetite...
...Pakistan Taliban, to help improve its poor counterinsurgency capability. In 2008, Washington dispatched 100 military personnel to train Pakistani officers, who would in turn pass on their skills to rank-and-file soldiers; but local sensitivities precluded the Americans from being given direct access to the troops. As U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke told reporters in Washington, "There is nothing secret about their presence there...
...Shan, carried in crates in a special cargo jet, were on their way to China for a special breeding mission in efforts to keep the well-loved but endangered species going. (See pictures of the departing pandas...