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...dark side: girls, booze, mild working-world rebelliousness. These passage are not wildly inventive, but at least they return us to that place where movies function most comfortably, a naturalistic world that is, of course, intensified by dialogue and plotting that stretches and enlivens reality while still keeping in touch with...
...even installed a pre-hung door. Then, to block out his noisy suitemates, the blossoming general contractor installed bright pink R-13 fiberglass insulation and sound deadening panels, which he admits even the courteous Home Depot employee dubbed “overkill.” As a finishing touch, he used wood veneer paneling to give the room a flower power, Brady Bunch house feel...
...stressed about picking my classes without the aid of my.harvard.edu, until I took my hard copy of the Courses of Instruction and the CUE guide out of the fireplace, where I was using them for kindling. And whining about how hard it would be to get in touch with my whole blocking group at once seemed ridiculous once I remembered that the convenience of email is really no better than using my red phone (free!) or walking upstairs (a good way to avoid the “Sophomore Thirty”). Having wireless internet grants us the privilege of being...
...effective working relationship with the German Pope since he became Pope (some believe he may have even tried to block the election of the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in the conclave of April 2005). But more to the point, the Pope has long trusted his own writing touch for major documents and speeches - and no one was going to edit his grand return to the University of Regensburg where he'd taught theology in the 1970s...
...surprised at just how much people blame their problems on Ahmadinejad. "The traffic is his fault, these bad roads are his fault," said Naghmeh AminZadeh, 23, a university student from the town of Qazvin. "Even the rain is his fault." This is a populist who has lost his touch...