Word: temperance
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...homeless. There’s always a job, but my career and love will always be music.”While it’s common for an alienated teenager with a guitar to dream of selling out shows at Madison Square Garden, studying at Harvard tends to temper dreams of rock stardom. More young men here have their hopes set on being the next JFK than being the next Mick Jagger, but Carbone’s ambition still burns. It helps to have the right fuel. Called and Careless’s singer, Evan Gentler, 26, graduated college...
...doubt many readers are as disgusted as I am by China's use of coerced sterilization and abortion. But perhaps we should temper our shock by recognizing that China, with more than 20% of the earth's population, has a real and extremely serious population problem for which there may not be any painless or entirely humane solutions. The Chinese have a collective cultural memory of famine and mass starvation. We need to be aware of the reasons and rationale for China's population-control policies. John Coffee Marietta, Georgia...
...work to get the terminally modest Broderick to cop to his contribution. "There's some truth in that," he shrugs. "If he gets upset at rehearsal, I tend to sort of try to be the reasonable one. But I can be the one who goes crazy and loses his temper too," he adds hastily...
...think they'd be sick of each other, but they actually hang out offstage too. "We've always been friends," Broderick says. "We've had little arguments, very brief moments of temper or whatever, but so little. During this rehearsal process, when we get our little hour-and-a-half break, we go somewhere and eat. And go out after." There are joint excursions to the Hamptons. They have a whole circle of friends in common, including Parker and Lane's steady boyfriend as well as Alias actor (and Broadway veteran) Victor Garber. "Nathan is as much a part...
With English professor Elisa New sporting Larry Summers’s rock around campus, it looks like our foot-in-mouth University President will have a partner to help him temper his sharp and unruly tongue. Because it’s my job to worry about stuff like this, I started wondering: if Ron Howard did an “A Beautiful Mind”-style biopic on their relationship, who would play the loose-chinned economist and his poetry-reading lady love...