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...frame. "I had a workout log and a food journal where I'd write down what I ate--protein shake for breakfast, two Doritos, three breath mints, baked fish and green beans. That's it," she says, laughing, then grimacing. "I wish I could have seen myself in the full-length mirror just once to see how fit I was." She pauses, knowing she can never look like that again...
...MUCH INFLUENCE IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY? No, I think they're entitled to all the influence they can muster. It's a free world, and they did a very effective job for President Bush in the election. You've got to give them a lot of credit. I just wish that moderate Republicans were as energetic...
Meaney manages to portray Jimmy with both the hardened veneer of a country boy who has made it in the big world and the aw-shucks-ness little brothers almost necessarily possess. Hill is the wizened Irish grandfather we all wish we could have to tell us stories by a roaring fire. And Andrea Corr, lead singer for the internationally acclaimed pop/rock/Celtic group the Corrs, bucks the trend of musicians-turned-bad-actresses: she is absolutely stunning as Anne, the reigning band’s gifted fiddler...
...vocals and then slowing down to a poppy, tongue-in-cheek spoken word number that suggests a disempowerment far removed from the agency implied by the previous spirited rocking-out: “I only want to be attractive ‘coz I want to attract you/and I wish I were thin/goddamn this body, so fat and crude/and I wish I were witty and I want to be cultured and patient...
Invoking the cliché, “hindsight is always 20/20,” Zhuang said both professors wish they had foreseen the potential for an incident like this, and that the teaching staff will attempt to identify and coordinate with private tutors to prevent a similar occurrence in the future...