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...Another rule of thumb: Life is unfair, and everything comes a lot easier when you don't really need it. I did my best-ever bit of bargaining killing time on a layover in Istanbul, last January. A rug trader lured me into his shop and showed me a beautiful Anatolian kilim. "I'm on my way to Iraq, I don't want to buy a rug," I kept telling the guy, as the price kept plummeting...
...three actors are able to deliver. As their emotions change abruptly (“I love you, you’re stupid”), the cast skillfully navigates the challenging script. Lloyd-Bollard uses cast talents well, as Cate’s innocence and timidity (she sucks her thumb) counteracts Ian’s aggressively self-involved nature (after raping her he devours a muffin). The Soldier displays his arrogant confidence through his heavy-footed walk, his proud posture, and—more blatantly—when he decides to mark his territory by peeing on the bed like...
...don’t think I fit in here,” said Jade R. Randle ’11, who added that she wished she had remained in Texas. “I feel like I stick out like a sore thumb...
...It’s 7 a.m, exactly. This is not a class that starts late. Captain Mark A. Chaney, the course’s instructor, has served active duty in Kuwait, Pakistan, and Iraq. A man with half a thumb missing and a handshake no worse for the loss, he speaks with the measured precision and pitch of one accustomed to military discipline...
...which were brutally put down by Chinese military troops. But the issue, at bottom, was the same: how to respond? And here, China may well understand that 1989 was a long time ago. Beijing in those days could literally pull the plug on CNN and Dan Rather and then thumb its nose at the rest of the world. "It couldn't do that today even if it wanted to, and I don't think it does," the senior diplomat says...