Word: turning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...count two dozen cupcakes. If you ask human beings to count 2.9 million ballots - even if those human beings are Minnesotans - you're going to get a slightly different number every time. Envelopes whose contents were counted the first night are lost. Absentee ballots that were never counted turn up. Some people get their votes invalidated by accident. The 133 missing ballots, from example, were in an envelope from the not-exactly-shenanigans-prone University Lutheran Church of Hope in Minneapolis that got counted late on election night, then transported to a warehouse, and seem to have gone missing...
...broad, philosophical level, it is about working with administrators and taking students’ advice,” Schwartz said. But he added that he also knows “how to turn to students,” something he said he did in centralizing Harvard’s mental-health services into an accessible network for students...
...Need Those Fingers for Crossing,” possibly the tightest and most affecting song the band has yet composed, is about bulimia. When Gareth Campesinos! sings “I can taste the blood on your lips and on your tongue / I can see your teeth turn pink / Your gums fade to white,” it is hard to believe that this band was originally labelled as twee. Likewise, “Miserabilia” is a harrowing tale of failed love affairs and more eating disorders (“I’ve spent too much time...
...also divides “Nobel Son” between its mildly entertaining opening act and its manic, absurd conclusion. Indeed, the film veers wildly off track in its second hour. Writers Jody Savin and Randall Miller abandon any sense of character motivation or narrative structure, opting instead to turn the film into a frenetic, confusing revenge play. While “Nobel Son” may be intended as a dark comedy, its casual depictions of sadism and brutality quickly become tiresome. The man attacked in the opening sequence reappears later on, and his traumatic experience is essentially played...
...arrive. He wanted to see a down payment right away. "Some of this stuff has gotta start happening now," the governor barked to his aide regarding campaign contributions. "And we gotta see it. You understand?" Apparently aware of the illegality of the demand, he told his aide to turn the screws in person, not over the phone. Jackson has denied initiating or authorizing any such offer and has promised full cooperation with prosecutors...