Word: thanks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...former D.C. teacher, I cannot thank you enough for your cover story on Rhee and the state of emergency that exists in the Washington school system. Rhee might not win Miss Congeniality, but she's doing what's best for the students. What matters more than that? Kristen James, HADDONFIELD...
...angst, sexuality and intellectual aspiration) falls ill in the entrance of an apartment building in 1950s Germany. He is rescued by an attractive working-class woman named Hanna (Kate Winslet in a performance that heartbreakingly combines passivity and anger) who arranges his return home. When he comes back to thank her for her aid, they embark upon a heated sexual relationship, which, in due course, she abruptly breaks off. Some years later, as a law student, he visits a courtroom where he finds her on trial as a war criminal, which shocks him beyond measure. He also - quite belatedly - discovers...
...first discussed coming to Harvard to talk about race several months ago. “A funny thing happened on the way to Harvard Law School,” he said, jokingly referencing the election of President-elect Barack Obama. “So now, racism is over. Thank you for coming and good night...
...Prices were freed. As the success of reform became evident in the countryside, it was gradually extended to the cities. Deng endorsed the creation of Special Economic Zones, islands of capitalism in a communist society. (The most famous SEZ, Shenzhen, just north of Hong Kong, knows whom to thank for its prosperity; Deng's statue graces a square in the city.) So China started that long run of supercharged economic growth that has made it the workshop of the world. (See pictures of China hosting the Beijing Olympics...
...danger of crashing, the Colombian co-pilot did not assert the need for the plane to land. When asked, according to the flight log, “Is that okay with you and your fuel,” the co-pilot merely responded, “I guess so. Thank you very much.” Gladwell closed the story, and his talk, with a description of the miscommunication that lasted to the very end of the flight, as the plane plummeted to the ground. “There are two minutes of static,” Gladwell said slowly...