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...endless lawsuit in the BBC'S 2006 Bleak House; the rebellious daughter of a working-class Prime Minister in another BBC series, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard; and the landowner's daughter who's desperate to be an actress in the Royal Court production of The Seagull that went to Broadway last year and earned her a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress...
...them. President George W. Bush had at least one pair. So did Rosie O'Donnell and George Clooney. As well as, oh, about 2 billion children. Sales at the Colorado-based company climbed from a meager $24,000 in 2002 to more than $847 million in 2007. When Crocs went public in February 2006, it raised $208 million - the largest shoe-firm IPO in market history...
...Peace Prize to former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, ostensibly for monitoring elections in far-flung hellholes, but really for being the most prominent American critic of then President Bush's buildup to a war in Iraq. The NPFNBGWB returned after a short hiatus in 2005, when the prize went to the International Atomic Energy Agency and Mohamed ElBaradei for refusing to confirm the existence of Saddam Hussein's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction before the war in Iraq - in other words, for standing up to Bush. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change probably deserved the Nobel in 2007 for spreading...
...surrender to the will of the Almighty. But we do not elect leaders to be monks. We want them to do things. The world leader who actually is a monk, the Dalai Lama, never stops doing things for his Tibetan people and for others; he donated the money that went with his own Peace Prize to Mother Teresa, hunger relief in Africa and a university dedicated to peace in Costa Rica...
...lived there forever. Any Matherites reading this are probably scandalized at this point, but Jerk-land honestly isn’t half bad. Harvard housing made me realize once and for all that I’m an experience addict. Many have said that since randomization went into effect, the Houses no longer each have a distinct character. If you are inclined to believe this, then perhaps you haven’t lived in three of them. Looking back, each House felt in a certain sense like going to a separate school—the differences were that noticeable. People...