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...lord!” said Summers as the room began to pulsate with raw evil. “Thank you for your gift! There is nothing I like more than having innocuous, largely accurate statements qualified by phrases like, ‘This subject needs more study but some researchers think it may be true that...’ misconstrued by radicals with an agenda to push! To thank you for your blessing, I shall sacrifice a billy goat...
Statistics tell us it's a golden time in Australia: sustained economic growth, lots of jobs, growing household incomes. The thousands of Australians struggling on low wages might tell a different story, but they don't often get the chance to do so. Thank goodness, then, for Elisabeth Wynhausen, who decided the best way to listen to the poor was to struggle and sweat alongside them. For her book Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job Market (Macmillan; 246 pages), she shed her identity as a senior newspaper journalist and took up residence in a world most...
...Thank God for Tony Leung Chiu-wai. The best actor working in Asian cinema today can redeem any scene and endow even the most artificial plot with a few degrees of soul. Like Chow Yun-fat before he disappeared into Hollywood, Leung seems able to rise above his material and effortlessly make off with any film. It's no surprise that he plays such an accomplished thief in his latest project, the diverting Seoul Raiders...
DonorsChoose may be a virtual charity, but its effect on children is very real. Every shipment includes a disposable camera and guidelines for writing class thank-you notes. A fifth-grader in the Bronx reduced a regular donor to tears with this note: "No one has ever done anything that nice for me before ... I want to do something nice for you. Just let me know what you need, and I'll take care of it." Vani Khajuria, a North Carolina fourth-grader, wrote her patron, "My children's children's children will treasure this book." Eloquent proof that...
...facebook a lot more now that I’ve graduated than I did while I was in school,” Wajnberg writes in an email. “I have a tedious boring office job like most other recent grads, and thank God my firm hasn’t web-blocked thefacebook.com, so I can spend endless hours perusing profiles...