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...that’s what our coaches and I are going to do. It’s back to the drawing board.” For O’Connor, the focus also shifts to the leadership he will be asked to provide next season, especially with the standard that he himself has set for the whole team. He will be asked to set the tone and raise the bar for all of his teammates. “It’s the exciting part of a journey we started a long time ago,” Head Coach...
...However, Cocteau’s standard for Surrealism did not apply to “The Secret Lives of Umbrellas.” Although visually interesting—giant eyeballs and colorful umbrellas popped up throughout the show—what made “Secret Lives” unusual was the fact that it didn’t lean upon images to justify itself aesthetically...
...back in 1949, the French writer Simone de Beauvoir recognized that because men have traditionally been considered the primary or default model for humanity (wasn’t Eve made of Adam’s rib?), women are judged according to this standard and therefore appear secondary and “inessential...
Since then Queensland Premier Peter Beattie declared such recycling mandatory. It's already standard practice in Namibia and Singapore and in cities like London, which draw much of their water from rivers where treated sewage has been dumped upstream. Queasiness is a luxury no one can either afford or justify, since purification technology can handle stuff the coddled minds of suburbia cannot. "Even wastewater is at least 99% water," says Bruce Durham, Veolia's alternative-resources manager. "What matters isn't its history but its quality...
...graduate from Warsaw University. In 2003 he followed several friends to Dublin. Today he logs 10 hours a day as a roofer and recently put money down on a new Dublin home. "In Poland I would have to work many, many years to have the same standard of living," he says. Wlodzimierz Oska, 44, a cleaner at the same construction site, sends $1,300 home each month to his wife and four children. Coming to Dublin was a "crazy thing," said Oska. He had never left Poland before. A trained electrician, he now makes twice as much sweeping...