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...vast majority of Murphy's male clients are indeed gay, though he has several straight actors and even a hetero sportscaster among his regular stops. Compared with his female clients, the men--in addition to being far more nervous about the pain--are extra-cautious about making sure they don't overdo it. "Five years ago, everybody wanted that frozen look," he says. "Now they tell me, 'Make me look refreshed. As few lines as possible, but I still need to have expression...
...vast majority of videos on the House and Senate YouTube channels will probably inspire far less emotion, as they're really meant to give legislators another forum to communicate with voters. "You can host a floor speech, a press conference, a town hall - you can really do a lot with this medium," says Hammill. True, but we're going to bet that not a lot of viewers will forward clips of a town hall...
...seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with or even understand; we are too small and too afraid.” Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging on the Middle Ages...
...uneasy compromise could mean an end to the latest Russia-Europe gas spat, and relief for the millions of people across vast swathes of Europe who have spent this week shivering. The deal was worked out Thursday after a confusing mesh of negotiations in Brussels, Prague, Kiev and Moscow. E.U. inspectors have now arrived in the Ukraine to assuage Russia that Kiev is not surreptitiously siphoning off gas from the pipeline transiting the country, and Moscow has pledged to turn the gas taps back on as soon as the observers start work in monitoring the gas flow at Ukrainian pumping...
...Great Depression: the financial sector is in ruins; the budget is hemorrhaging red ink; debt-ridden households have clamped down on spending, thereby pulling the rug out from under the economy; unemployment is soaring; the country is in two wars; and the unmet social and environmental needs are vast. These conditions demand a fundamental realignment in strategy that ultimately comes back to taxation: Will we pay for the government we need? Obama's big domestic program, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, proposes doubling renewable-energy production and making public buildings more efficient. It calls for better schools and classrooms...