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...upon reaching her lowest point, Rowling said, she stripped away the “inessential” in her life and ceased to pretend to be anything other than what...
...free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive,” she said. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation upon which I rebuilt my life...
...laughter and a common enemy solve - at least locally - the Arab-Israeli conflict? This movie seems to think so, though genial humanism may strike you as a pretty slender hope for so titanic an issue. And it's a big narrative lurch, too, which maybe we shouldn't dwell upon. Much better to focus on the purely comedic, beginning with Sandler's performance. It offers hilarious satire on James Bondian heroics. And Zohan's manic desire to provide "silky smooth" hair dressing represents good comic value, too. There's always been a sweet disconnectedness to Sandler's screen character...
...course, it's entirely possible that this phobia of risk that is branded upon the Harvard student's soul is not a result of our Ivy-pedigree education, but our decision to take part in it in the first place. Students who are admitted to Harvard haven't made many mistakes. While Byerly Hall does a fantastic job of putting together diverse classes, perhaps this risk-minimizing ethos is the exception. After all, with the luxury of a seven-percent admit rate, why would Harvard's gatekeepers bother taking risks with the future...
...doubt, history will not look well upon this administration, but there are still some positive steps this administration can take—be it the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol or the much-needed move to sever all ties with mercenary armies, starting with the expulsion of Blackwater U.S.A. (which at one point held a $1.2 billion contract with the U.S government and supplied up to 30000 private security guards in Iraq...