Word: stress
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...that many of us believe in does not detract from the sincerity or power of his faith. It is a faith that is real, all too real--gripping billions across the Muslim world in a new wave of fervor and fanaticism. All worries are past him, all anxiety, all stress. "Peoples, driven by their divine nature, intrinsically seek good, virtue, perfection and beauty," Ahmadinejad said at the U.N. "Relying on our peoples, we can take giant steps towards reform and pave the road for human perfection. Whether we like it or not, justice, peace and virtue will sooner or later...
...limited run in the U.S. two years ago (it's available on DVD), and what people remember from it, besides the tightening stress as the antagonists search for each other, are some cool set pieces: the 20min. scene of a drug deal monitored by the cops, as Lau and Leung try to get messages to their contacts without being caught; a couple of tense rooftop meetings that end in death; Leung's pursuit of Lau outside a movie theater; and the moment when a taxicab is abruptly flattened, out of the sky, by the falling body...
...question. But question how? Just what interrogation methods are off the table now? Depends on whom you talk to. McCain, who along with Graham and Warner had fought the Administration on some of the most coercive methods, insisted to reporters last week that the harshest techniques--such as waterboarding, stress positions, extreme sleep deprivation and hypothermia--could now be illegal. "For all the gloating from the Administration," says Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch, "they are not getting what they want on torture." And what methods are O.K.? No one inside or outside the CIA will say. Which may mean...
...it’s a curse. We want to do that from the beginning.” The team will help itself by getting healthy. Freshman Devon Sherman will look to be in the lineup this coming week, and Lizzy Nichols started Saturday for the first time since suffering stress fractures in her face during a collision two weeks ago against St. Mary’s. However, starting defender and sophomore Allison Keeley will not be back on the team for at least four weeks with a stress fracture. No matter what the team’s injury situation...
Harvard’s elimination of early admissions has raised questions about the practice of allowing athletically talented students to relieve themselves of the stress of the college process half-a-year earlier than their fellow applicants...