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...deadening grind. Going back two decades, when he was starting in television, or to the mid-'80s, after he made his big leap into films, Lau was dogged by a sensation that he was sleepwalking through his performances. "In any movie," he says, "you showed your handsome face, maybe stood there in a smart pose, and that's it, that was enough. The hard part was already done...
...Sept. 14, 2001, President Bush stood in the rubble of the World Trade Center and struck a pose with a veteran fire fighter. If that was Bush's most memorable day, then something was wrong from the beginning. Turning up three days late, after being whisked around the country for his own safety, isn't my idea of heroism. Winston Churchill would have donned his helmet and been there on 9/11, regardless of security concerns. Jean Lamore Paris...
With 12:48 left in the game, the score stood at 9-6 with Harvard seeming set to maintain its lead and cruise to victory...
...Christ connecting those stories was not just the one whose death had delivered her from sin. Terrell says he was also the Christ who generations of African Americans have believed suffered with them as well as for them. And, she adds, the Christ who in his life had "stood up to abusive authorities and an abusive culture and taught people how to do that." These Christs, rolled into one Christ, stood by her in her pain, enabled her to see her mother as having died standing up to her abuser and helped Terrell find her place as a person "trying...
Maybe it was beginner’s luck. Fresh out of Harvard, having swooped headlong into the pit of motion picture dreams that is Los Angeles, Steve J. Sandvoss ’02 stood in front of a casting agent for his very first Hollywood audition—and got the part...