Word: stonings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sandler plays Skeeter Bronson, son of a one-time hotel magnate (Jonathan Pryce) who lost his empire to Barry Nottingham (Richard Griffiths, slimmed down a few stone since his History Boys stint). Now Nottingham is grooming the snidely Kendall (Guy Pearce) as his heir, while employing Skeeter in the lowly capacity of light-bulb changer. At the hotel his ally is do-nothing Mickey (Russell Brand); his other adversary is the officious Aspen (Lucy Lawless of Xena renown); and the potential prize and troublemaker is Nottingham's sexy daughter Violet (Teresa Palmer). When Skeeter's sister (Courteney Cox) goes...
...down No. 3 Dartmouth (7-4-1, 6-2-1 ECAC), 3-2. Sophomore Liza Ryabkina played the hero, netting the game-winner early in the third period. “It was a hard-fought game, and we capitalized on our opportunities,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “The kids were ready to go. They played very alert, together hockey.”Just three days after being upset on the road by Connecticut, and falling out of the national polls for the first time in over six years, the Crimson came out firing...
...down No. 3 Dartmouth (7-4-1, 6-2-1 ECAC), 3-2. Sophomore Liza Ryabkina played the hero, netting the game-winner early in the third period. “It was a hard-fought game, and we capitalized on our opportunities,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “The kids were ready to go. They played very alert, together hockey.”Just three days after being upset on the road by Connecticut and falling out of the national polls for the first time in over six years, the Crimson came out firing...
...days of loss and uncertainty, there is particular comfort in the once-a-year hymns, the green-bean recipe you don't really like but would still miss at Thanksgiving, the recurring commitments that remind us what's certain, what's fleeting. Timber and stone, flesh and blood may change--a grandfather dies, a house burns down--but the traditions survive; they are made of love and longing for what we value, and so we hold them close and take them wherever we go. They are wonderfully portable, as anyone who has ever improvised a Thanksgiving in someone else...
...University of Illinois, the writer questioned whether Quinn, then heading an organization advocating for increased grass-roots political power, was a "gadfly or hypocrite." The piece was titled "Pat Quinn - A Man Politicians Love to Hate," and it quoted him as saying, "I'm like a rolling stone gathering the moss of legislative opposition, but it doesn't bother me that much. I do it because someone has to try to make things better...