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...year she became this awful person, and she’s so boring and just sits by the fire.” So I’m excited for my fiancée to see that scene.RR: Are you going to give him the same divorce condition?MG: Um...Eve H. Bryggman ’10RR: So who do you play?EB: I am Countess Popova. She basically is the tenant who lives downstairs from the main character, and she’s having an affair with him. Actually, she’s having multiple affairs. And so I come...
...that I wanted to know more about a book which meant so much to so many people. She accepted that response until we received a phone call a few weeks later. “Hello. Is Kasha Tinkelvitz there?” asked the telephone caller. “Um...she’s unavailable at the moment. What is this regarding?” my mother responded. Kasha is our dog, a puff of a mutt who, though quite social, rarely receives calls. “This is a representative of the Church of Latter-day Saints. Kasha sent...
...monday, TV and movie writers walked off the job, demanding a cut of the proceeds when their work appears on the Web. The same day, viral-video site Break.com invited striking writers to enter a short-movie contest, the winner to receive $5,000 (and everyone else to get, um, the pleasure of uploading their work). "We get close to 1.5 million guys watching over 12,000 videos on our site every day," the site boasted. "They could be watching yours...
...last month agreed to fund the $1 billion, 2,200-megawatt Mong Duong coal plant in northern Vietnam. Greenpeace has urged the ADB to invest in alternative-energy projects instead. But technologies such as wind power aren't advanced enough to meet Vietnam's needs, says Woo Chong Um, the ADB's energy director for sustainable development. "We're trying to keep [Vietnam] as clean as possible under the circumstances," Um says. "But in the meantime, the country has to light itself...
...rogue primaries. In swing states like Michigan and Florida, the absence of major Democratic political activity for four months could severely damage the party nominee's general-election chances. In Florida, primary participants may be especially sensitive to being told their votes won't count. "Disenfranchisement is, um, a hot-button issue here," says a Florida Democratic Party official, alluding to lingering fury over the electoral fiasco...