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...only people not sharing the good vibes were the 13 House trial managers, many of whom sat at their table with bloodshot eyes and puffy faces, looking like members of some unwanted and unforgiven tribe of outcasts. Their White House counterparts move easily among the Senators, clutching elbows and exchanging meaningful looks, while the House managers have become pariahs--"two-year-olds," as a G.O.P. Senator disdainfully described them in a private meeting with his colleagues. "And everyone knows you shouldn't give two-year-olds everything they want...
...face of it Dorje Shugden is not an appealing prisoner of conscience. He is depicted--by friends--as a lightning-breathing terror with three bloodshot eyes, wreathed in the smoke of burning human flesh. In fact, however, as one of a pantheon of "protector deities," he exercises his wrath only in defense of a 350-year-old purist interpretation of the Dalai Lama's own Gelugpa branch of Tibetan Buddhism. For decades the High Lama himself included Shugden in his daily prayers. But in 1976 he began preaching against the god; in 1996 he discouraged Shugdenites' participation...
Dressed for the interview in a hipster blue bowling shirt, black slacks and loosely tied sneakers, Downey looks good after serving 113 days in the joint. Well, maybe except for the platinum-blond streaks in his dark hair, dyed for a new movie role. His once bloodshot eyes seem clear and focused. The famous six-stitch gash he received in a vicious prison brawl is virtually undetectable on his still boyish face, thanks to a controversial furlough that allowed him to visit a plastic surgeon. And though he initially insisted that no questions about jail be asked, he not only...
...Bloodshot Eye gets back on the gridiron. Sure, it's pricey, but look at the alternative: Tisch...
Sitting curled up on my bed, eyes bloodshot and stomach growling, I steadily punch the keys on my laptop in order to make the next fellowship deadline. And then it hits me. I am back in my senior year of high school. The self-marketing blitz, the standardized tests, the clever essays, they all come rushing back to me. It seems like ages ago when we were all declaring to the world (or at least to our favorite colleges) that we were worthy, that all those Advanced Placements courses should count for something...