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...everything that glitters is gold, and as any respectable Yard tour will teach you, the model for the famed statue—that you should never, ever kiss—wasn’t even John Harvard. Yet your virginity shall not be lost in vain. Harvard remains that place you dreamed of, that one you fought tirelessly to gain admission to. Savor it without becoming jaded by its privileges...
...vain did her lawyer itemize Davis' grievances: that she could be suspended without pay for refusing a part, with the period of suspension added to her contract; that she could be called upon to play any part within her abilities regardless of her personal beliefs; that she could be required to support a political party against her beliefs; and that her image and likeness could be displayed in any manner deemed applicable by the studio. (This is from Wikipedia.) The barrister for Warners sneered at this list, saying "that this is rather a naughty young lady and that what...
...ancient rock carvings on the Burrup Peninsula, near Dampier. He's keen to see them again. The pen-insula alone holds some 10,000 known engravings, but the visitors' center is closed for renovations, there are no signposts, and the intrepid Parker, 47, searches his creaky memory in vain. Low, brown boulders and rust-colored piles of super-hard granophyre give no clue to the location of the artistic riches hidden in the scrub beyond the sealed road from Karratha...
Gartside is not the type to occupy the later years of his career with vain attempts to recreate an instinctive original greatness, as many musicians do; his is the type of music that gets better as he learns things. “White Bread, Black Beer,” masterfully wraps up humor, sex, unease, and stutter-starts of musical brilliance to produce a veiled, intellectual self-portrait of one of pop’s most fascinating thinkers...
...religious freedoms we currently enjoy. It certainly does not mean having a totalitarian dictatorship appoint an unelected administrator for us. But the Chinese Communist Party thinks it is possible to impose such fake democracy-its "one country, two systems" policy-on Taiwan. The party's efforts are in vain. We have tasted true freedom; therefore we shall never again give it up. The future of Taiwan can be decided only by its 23 million people. Chiu is correct: "The island's democracy is here to stay." Eric Kai-Hsiang Yu Taichung, Taiwan...