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...economy. My advice to would-be webmasters of new projects: don’t do it! Or at least, try and pair up with someone who already has a site out there. The market is plenty crowded and I get enough spam as it is. Still, for the truly stubborn, note that the mantra “If you build it, they will come” simply doesn’t apply here. More than fancy photos or flash animations, more even than easy one-click credit card transactions, what Harvard students want out of web sites is content?...
...terms. Schindler (Liam Neeson) is a reluctant savior. "He didn't come to Poland to save Jews," survivor Leon Leyson says in Voices from the List. "He came to Poland to make his fortune." Keeping his Jewish workers alive was at first just good business, then a matter of stubborn pride and finally a humanist crusade for which his beneficiaries are ever grateful. "He was life, he was maybe future," says Rena Finder...
...Powell's comments came long before the stubborn insurgency took root, and before the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council failed to achieve either legitimacy or consensus. And long before the U.S. changed its plans, opting to replace the IGC with a new provisional government at caucuses of select Iraqis. Longer, still, even before the collapse of that revised plan in the face of determined opposition from the Shiite majority, whose spiritual leaders have demanded direct elections. Right now, the only aspect of the U.S. transition plan devised last November that remains on track is the June 30 date for dissolving...
...inflammation than the physicians who specialize in rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus and other autoimmune disorders. For decades these diseases have provided the clearest example of a body at war with itself. But the spark that fuels their internal destruction doesn't come from excess cholesterol deposits or a stubborn bacterial infection. Instead, in a bizarre twist of fate, the body's supersophisticated, learned immunological defenses mistakenly direct an inflammatory attack against healthy cells in such places as the joints, nerves and connective tissue...
Hugo has done all he can to become a hermit, but he can't quite seem to saw through those last few stubborn fibers connecting him to the rest of humanity. His wimpy artist brother Dennis turns up on his doorstep, fleeing an imploding marriage. Both men develop raging crushes on Stephanie, a bored and incorrigibly sexy lawyer who happens to be Dennis' wife's best friend. Then Hugo's estranged con-woman wife Sonia rematerializes and installs herself chez Hugo with her daughter Bellatrix, who may or may not be his child...