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...time. It's the kind of punishment that won kudos for Lon Chaney and Paul Muni in the old days, and helped Robert De Niro to an Oscar in Raging Bull playing Jake LaMotta. (He got himself into fighting shape, then he gained a ton of weight! Acting!) Beyond the stunt aspect, Rourke does strong, sensitive work. All praise to him, and to Darren Aronofsky for casting the actor and directing him to turn a standard fiction into quirky, coherent behavior...
...outdone by Cameron and Miliband, Brown argued in Brussels for a spirited response to Moscow. Along with several other leaders, he put his weight behind the suspension of negotiations over an often delayed E.U.-Russia partnership agreement intended to ease commerce and economic cooperation. "Yesterday was a strong demonstration of European unity in the face of Russian transgression of core international values," Miliband told TIME. "There was not only strong support for Georgia but a profound reassessment of the right way to deal with Russia. Europeans are committed to territorial integrity and rule-based governance, and these principles have been...
...that my school didn't have in stock. I had a minicorporation of about four or five kids, and we raised some money. I'm not sure the exact amount, but the last year we raised over $4,000. It was pretty impressive. If people weren't pulling their weight, I had to fire them...
...them turned to the other and said, 'I'm 57 years old. Did you ever think we'd see this?' They were both crying." Former Harvard Dems secretary Jonathan Padilla '11 said that the Wednesday night speech from Sen. Joseph Biden's (D-Del.) held the most weight. "I was listening with a small group of close friends," Padilla said, "and two phrases stood out for me: 'When you get knocked down, get up,' and 'God sends no cross you cannot bear.' It's been a rough year with my father's health, so hearing those stories about falling down...
...dragging on his ambitions, an unpopular president mired in the polls and tangled in a troubled economy. It's nothing personal, but when a sailor - or politician - has exhausted all other strategies for hoisting the dead weight, he has no choice but to cut it loose...