Word: act
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...original drew its charge from the threat of war with an empire that no longer exists (though its weaponry does). So why do it now? Because George Clooney wanted to. He made Fail Safe a priority when he pitched shows to CBS; the network in turn insisted that he act in it (he plays a bomber pilot). "I'm the 800-lb. gorilla that can make this work," he admits. He personally secured the A-list cast, Don Cheadle, Noah Wyle, Harvey Keitel and James Cromwell among them. And he contends the story is no mere period piece. "Even though...
...Theatricals portion of the Pudding technically complies with the College's policy forbidding recognized student groups from discriminating on the basis of gender, though only men are allowed to act on the Pudding stage. Women are involved in all other aspects of the Theatricals' productions and hence the group retains its recognized status...
...willing to concede that taste is subjective enough that people may just not like the taste of organ meat. My issue is with those people who pull faces at eating certain parts out of some false notion of intrinsic 'uncleanliness,' and, worse than that, to consider the very act of eating offal beyond their ken, beyond their realm of comprehension. I call this the 'how could you eat those parts?' school of thought: some people seem to take it as a God-given fact that anyone who eats anything that looks like the original animal or comes from an 'unclean...
...Research libraries, says Barbara Graham, associate director in the university library for administration and programs have a two-fold mission: to serve the research and teaching needs of present and future scholars and students and to act as stewards of the collections for the generations to come...
...when you have an opponent like Bush who is comfortable with traditionally female-skewed issues like education and even the environment," says TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty. Happily for Gore, his opponent's female insurgency happened early enough - and with enough force - that he was able to get his act together. "Gore recognized pretty quickly that he had to get out there and work hard for women voters," says Tumulty. And work he has. After hunkering down with a team of advisers, including feminist author Wolf, he's changed everything from his wardrobe to his talking points, bombarding women...