Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hope my inference is clear. The A’s go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B’s go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i’s.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz’s fallacies with their mothers. They often...
...studio continues to live on, producing comic books, and has started to tackle more modern themes. The tribe, which originally numbered 100, had to wait nine years before it met its first female, the Smurfette - although more girls have been promised in future albums. And in the wake of the revelation by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling that Dumbledore was gay, Nine Culliford has hinted at a similar outing amongst the Smurfs. "Well, I did tell my husband that Vanity Smurf was like that, and he said, 'I never thought about it, but you're right,'" Culliford said. "Who knows...
...bits, increments of what makes us all human. People become the bad guys rather gradually. I don't think they start off saying, 'oh, I know what I'll do.' You do incrementally stupid things that you figure, well, this helps my family, I can justify it. And you wake up one day and it's Tyco...
...could get away with the things he wanted to get away with. If you're going to be an actor and you're going to direct, you cannot go into movies, particularly saying, okay I'm going to direct these scenes. You have to surrender to it until you wake up one day and they're not doing their job. Tony never had that. There was never a second of that. The first day he's shooting with Robert Elswit, who is a cinematographer I did Good Night and Good Luck with, who I did Syriana with, who I trust...
Representatives of the office, which was created in the wake of then-president Lawrence H. Summers’ controversial remarks about women in the sciences, did not return requests for comment yesterday...