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...Obama's motorcade in London. Members of the foreign press twice applauded after Obama's press conferences, and the streets of Prague had been graffitied with a stenciled Obama portrait. The excitable French President Nicolas Sarkozy pronounced it "a hell of a good piece of news" that Obama understood that "the world does not boil down to simply American frontiers and borders...
...Guide this summer, said it was somewhat frustrating that the administration did not notify applicants of the change sooner. However, both thought that the news was most damaging to Bridge and McNaughton, the only two students who had officially been hired. Tanton and Lloyd said they understood the administration’s desire to save money by ending the print edition and cutting student staff, but they expressed concern over how the end of student involvement will affect the legitimacy of the new version of the Q Guide. “It’s always been the way that...
...could relate to working at a shitty job at the mall and poor Judge Reinhold having to dress up like a pirate to deliver food, and also Jennifer Jason Leigh getting an abortion, which was really sad. It was honest, and you could tell it came from people who understood a certain community, and it just wanted to capture that twilight of childhood. I think we need more movies that connect with the world like that...
...community members may not always realize the incredible emotional challenges that some students face privately. But when one woman asks herself, “Why did I convince myself that it was because of the way I danced? Why did I believe you when you said that you understood and that you were sorry?”; when a survivor warns, “He’s the one you least expect”; when yet another states, “[I] waited at the hospital in an exam room for three hours waiting for a rape...
...face meeting. When Rattner outlined the draconian marching orders Geithner had given him to try to save General Motors and Chrysler, Bloom paused and laid down a marker. He saw the job as a potential capstone in a career spent championing labor interests during years of industrial restructuring. He understood that the situation called for tough medicine for autoworkers. But I also want you to know, Bloom said, that I've dedicated my life to preserving as many American jobs as possible. Rattner, the titan of investment banking, said he wanted the same thing. (See 25 people to blame...