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...flip-flops drags on, voters can run a consistency check of their own. Kerry's team will blast Bush for reversing himself on steel tariffs and then charge that he is too stubborn to change. The Bush machine will paint Kerry as an unreconstructed Massachusetts liberal, and then if he claims to be a centrist by citing his past statements challenging affirmative action and teacher tenure and promoting free trade, he'll be back in the Waffle House. But maybe voters won't care much. The only perfectly consistent man, Aldous Huxley mordantly noted, is a dead...
...decision that, tragically, some students never make. Many of us pride ourselves on self-sufficiency. We didn’t get to Harvard having to ask for directions; we’re resourceful, we’re clever and—most importantly—we’re stubborn. It’s what gave us that edge over our classmates, but today it’s often the greatest impediment to our success...
...thing, she's cute. Mega-endearing. Giga-dorable. From her gigantic almond eyes to the full lips that can crease into the world's biggest, brightest smile, she expresses direct, unvarnished emotion. She has the gift of communicating, subtly and immediately, a broad range of feelings: happy, hurt, stubborn, forlorn, any or all of these in a flash, with just a flick of her head, a sigh, a glance. Movie charisma may not be easy to analyze, but it's a cinch to spot. And when Zhao shares a scene with anyone?with Jiang Wen, China's De Niro...
...that long-sought-after popularity, Norvell remains skeptical that the site is revolutionary. “The issue of social networking software is that it’s not clear what people do with it,” Norvell says. Such sentiment is often echoed by the rare but stubborn facebook holdout who refuses to join the site because “there is no point...
...Mind contains multiple, parallel tales of family crisis with Jake (Patrick McCaffrey), a stubborn, malicious paranoiac with a bad memory as their uniting element. As the play begins, he has badly beaten his wife, Beth (Nichole Shalhoub), and run off, thinking that he’s killed her. However, a doleful Beth has survived and is recuperating with the help of her brother, Mike (Tor Hillhouse). Also in the mix are Jake’s clearheaded siblings (Jodi Dick and Kaolin Bass) and a trio of daffy parents (Francesca Carlin, Tug Coker, and Laura Nordin...