Word: thingness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...vampires. He called me one day, out of the blue, very excitedly, and he said, all I have is this title, and I can't stop thinking about this title. And he said: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. For whatever reason, it just struck me as the most brilliant thing I'd ever heard. (See pictures of mummies from around the world...
...hadn't read the book since I was 14, and when I read it at 14 I found it sort of slow and unenjoyable. So the first thing I did was to read it all over again, straight through, just to refamiliarize myself with it. Then I read it again very carefully, marking up the margins, underlining things, making notes, sort of working out the logistics - all right, if I change this in chapter 6, how does it resonate in chapter 56? And so on. I was also looking for places to add things that hadn't existed...
...write in your book that when your son began to emerge from the worst of his autism he said that having the condition felt like being buried alive. What's the most important thing a parent can do to help draw a child out? Just remember that there is a very alert, bright, loving sweet child in there who simply looks like he doesn't care and can't hear you. They very much know what's going on. Evan has repeated things to me that I said to him when he was three and in his worst state...
...During his presidential campaign, then-Senator Obama made it clear that he wanted to support the new and emerging democracies of Central and Eastern Europe. While there are many factors that may affect the emergence of stable democracies and market economies in the region, one thing that will positively affect the trajectories of all the countries on the continent is a continued American military presence on the European continent and a strong transatlantic dialogue. Toward that end, the Obama administration should spearhead the effort to build a better NATO...
...University graduates the next day. Senior class First Marshal Lumumba B. Seegars ’09 said Lauer’s experiences as a journalist have provided him with an “inspiring” perspective to share with Harvard seniors. “I think the good thing about Matt Lauer is that we are in a very interesting time in the world right now, and Matt Lauer is right in the middle of all those things,” Seegars said. A graduate of Ohio University, Lauer joined NBC in 1994 and has anchored the Today Show?...