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Bollywood, as the trades would say, is boffo these days. Of course, half the planet--the poorer half--has long thrilled to the colorful conventions of Bollywood: Boy meets girl. Villain steals girl. Girl inexplicably kicks off a dreamy song-and-dance sequence with a chorus of hundreds instantly transported from an Indian village to the Swiss Alps. There's usually a plot in there somewhere, but who cares? With stars like hunk-of-the-month Hrithik Roshan (liquid green eyes, super-muscled body, hydraulic dancing hips) and seductress Kareena Kapoor (flowing brown tresses, bee-stung lips, hydraulic dancing hips), these films have held audiences from Delhi to Durban in their thrall. The first movie to show in Kabul after the Taliban fled Afghanistan's capital last year was a Bollywood epic.
President Bartlet delivered a monologue during the debate that could easily be the show's own disclaimer to critics: "I'm the president of the United States, not the president of the people who agree with me. And by the way, if the left has a problem with that, they should vote for somebody else."
Why do you think people have no patience for stories in a social setting, and yet the Moth has been a huge success?
I think it's habit. I mean, who knows where the zeitgeist ever takes us, or what it's doing, or what it thinks it's doing. But right now, it thinks - or for a while, it thought - that everybody had a short attention span, and that everybody needed quick little blasts or they would get bored. And I don't think that's true, but the zeitgeist can easily persuade itself that what it's doing is the appropriate thing. And, at any rate, everybody did seem to have a short attention span. It seemed as though the entire nation had an attention deficit disorder. So, when we started the Moth, we didn't know if people would want to listen for so long, but actually, they do. It's just the same as when movies like Magnolia or Topsy-Turvy - extremely long movies - turned out to be hits. People have the same attention span that they ever did, it was all a fraud and a ruse. People were very hungry for things that they could sit down and really listen to. So this art form of storytelling that we believed to be dead, or nearly dead, was actually very much alive and vital and is actually sought after by people all over the country.
While it may be technically correct that Cisco also sold its special firewall box to countries other than China (even though it may have first developed it for China), the company's portrayal of business-as-usual in China is disingenuous: it's unlikely Cisco was able to capture 75 percent of the Chinese router market without making major concessions to the Chinese government.
I asked my student friends at the Beijing Language Institute if they believed in Democracy Yes of course! Then why arent you down at Democracy Wall? Oh our unit hasnt got permission to go yet they disarmingly replied.
Deng still keeps on his wall a picture of his ex-wife, whom he bought for 300 yuan. "She's very capable [of doing housework and farming]. But I was too poor, so she gave up after living with me for seven years," he mused.
Deng says he wanted a Vietnamese wife the second time around for economic reasons.
"It costs dearly to get a Chinese girl for a wife," he explained. "People would look down upon you if you don't have money or a wife. Having a Vietnamese bride is cheaper but will nevertheless earn you respect. At least you have a family."
When you pronounce such a word for the first time, there is always a split second of anxiety during which you stare at your interlocutor's face to see if they are going to understand it. And when you realize they do, you feel really good about yourself. And you marvel at the power of learning another language.Also Jason and the meaning of K7
Most are not hardened criminals but caught in a system that requires deportation of non-U.S. citizens convicted and sentenced to prison terms of more than one year and one day.[...] Suwan's story is pretty typical. He's 34 years old, both his parents were murdered by the Khmer Rouge. He has a wife and two young children in Houston, Texas, where he was a supervisor on a construction project for the local government. His crime? Indecent exposure for urinating on the job site.
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"Try not to feel discouraged or burned out," he typed. "Focus on the things that make you feel good. Ignore the noise."Download AbiWord
Sage words from a young programmer. And worth savoring. Because, in the end, seen from the perspective of a hacker trying to get something to work, all the rhetoric about world domination, about booms and busts and IPOs and market share, is just noise. Whereas the camaraderie of developers sharing their anxieties and triumphs, working together to solve problems -- the chitchat that fills the hours spent scrolling down the terminal windows of the hackers hanging out in #abiword -- that's sweet music.
Now that was one very important lesson for me. You see, it brought back all these memories of being a kid and having that fearless nature, that thing inside you that says: "Hey, I can be an astronaut if I want" That thing that life tends to beat out of us as we get on with it. It's a lesson that I learned to apply to everything I do now at Marvel because I realized I wasn't learning it for the first time. I was just reminded that [...] we all have this trait deep inside of our forgotten past [... an] ability to not see defeat as on option or even a roadblock.
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