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...shapes and sizes abound. 3. For each sighting of the “Tom Cruise Face.” You know; the one where he opens his mouth slightly, puts on a dead stare and breathes heavily. 4. Every time you see Jon Voight, because the only way to comprehend that this man co-produced Angelina Jolie is to be heavily intoxicated. 5. Every time that damn theme song starts playing in the background. This would also be a good time to burn Fred Durst in effigy for having his fourth-rate musical act make a cover...
...challenge that the 20th-century philosopher of modern communication theory Marshall McLuhan would comprehend. The Canadian-born writer, who coined the phrase "the medium is the message," was also a devout Catholic. In one conversation recorded by his wife, McLuhan said: "Christ came to demonstrate God's love for man and to call all men to Him through himself as Mediator, as Medium. And in so doing he became the proclamation of his Church, the message of God to man. God's medium became God's message...
...going to do nothing and hope for the best, or are we going to do something? What can we do? What will be the consequences of both courses of action? That is our post-9/11 debate." Which the doomed, defiant passengers had just a few minutes to comprehend and resolve...
That's a difficult lesson for Manzano to comprehend. A company called Sibau just down the road from Piani's factory collapsed last May, with the loss of 50 jobs. "They stayed still too long," Piani laments. "They thought nobody could make chairs the way they...
...paid relatives of the victims $2,500 for each of the 15 dead civilians, plus smaller payments for the injured. But nothing can bring back all that was taken from 9-year-old Eman Waleed on that fateful day last November. She still does not comprehend how, when her father went in to pray with the Koran for the family's safety, his prayers were not answered, as they had been so many times in the past. "He always prayed before, and the Americans left us alone," she says. Leaving, she grabs a handful of candy...