Word: sweets
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...into, his thoughts leap to 1948, as though one event were indistinguishable from the other. He lays down his butcher's knife and shows me a 2007 wall calendar with a photograph of an old stone schoolhouse in Beit Nabala, his ancestral village. "The water in Beit Nabala was sweet, and the earth was so rich that beans grew overnight like magic," he marvels. Has Omar ever visited his old village home? "No," he replies sadly. "My father went back once, in 1973. He went to our house, and some Jews answered. They asked my father, 'What are you doing...
...secret that I’m going to share with you today is something that is truly shocking for a Harvard student: I don’t get straight A’s.Think back to high school and the time you received your acceptance letter from Harvard. How sweet was that moment? You officially were going to college, an accomplishment that—according to your guidance counselor’s constant warnings to you and the rest of your class throughout the application process—only occurs to students who are way more intelligent, athletic, artistic, and cooler...
ESPN.com also lists Stanford as one of Schwarzkopf’s potential destinations, but it was another potential Cardinal signee whose commitment proved especially sweet...
...Laura wants more: to adopt imperiled children. They already have one: seven-year-old Simon (Roger Princep), a sweet, cheerful, sensitive boy who knows neither that he is adopted nor that he was born HIV positive. Surely Laura and Carlos love him at least as much as any birth child. But they are both beguiled and troubled by Simon's affinity for imaginary friends: Watson and Pepe, whose invisible eccentricities (as related by Simon) they've got used to, and a new companion, Tomas, whose influence seems much more malignant...
After casting him in a small role in Freaks, Apatow started to think about keeping Rogen around when he improvised a sweet, funny scene in which his character wonders if he's gay after finding out his girlfriend was born a hermaphrodite. When Freaks ended after one season, Apatow tried to cast Rogen as the lead of Undeclared, a sitcom about college kids. The network, however, didn't think Rogen looked like a leading actor. "He was already approved to be in the cast, and they literally got angry at me for suggesting it," Apatow says. "And I said...