Word: vaines
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...girl. After logging onto Facebook.com, I entered “Harvard, traveling, girl” into the search engine. 108 profiles appeared. But while scanning the pictures, hoping that her Facebook photo would bear at least a passing resemblance to her actual appearance (many times a vain hope), it occurred to me that there are really only two types of female Facebook profile pictures. First is the girl whose picture is a “group shot” of her with her girlfriends; she hopes to impress guys by advertising her popularity, but does not realize that this tactic...
...Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made her way around the Middle East this week trying in vain to convince Arab governments to cut all funding to a Hamas-led government, the U.S. and Israel both found themselves struggling to find a workable response to an unanticipated reality. The only way the U.S.-Israeli effort to isolate a Hamas-led Palestinian government will succeed, right now, is if Hamas were to launch new terror strikes against Israel. And that's precisely the reason why Palestinian observers and Israeli security analysts expect the radical Islamist movement to maintain and extend the cease...
...success” is so individualistically defined. On the pragmatic end, the public relations victories that human rights advocates are winning serve as evidence that one will not be alone in making ethical decisions and hence that such efforts at bringing about change need not be totally in vain...
...wait in vain for this catalog of tiny ironies and insights to add up to something wise and new. Is it that the foibles of rich New Yorkers are getting just a little overskewered? Or that McInerney's characters, while capable of surprising themselves and one another, never surprise us? Or that we wish they were more worthy objects of our readerly sympathy ("I've facilitated the movement of capital around the globe like a bee mindlessly carrying pollen," laments an investment banker--poor little bee!)? Or maybe there's something monstrously asymmetrical about watching the wistful ripples that...
...never become movies. Working with Wim I know one way or another, it may take five or ten years, but down the road it?s going to be a movie. And it?s a wonderful feeling because you know what you?re writing is not going to be in vain. It?s not going to go through that Hollywood process of being looked at by a committee. It?s just between...