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...really normal for an actress. Not a lot of my friends are actors. Maybe that helps...
...Patrick Gray to replace FBI Director Hoover, who had died six weeks before the Watergate break-in, and wanted to blunt White House efforts to suppress the FBI investigation of the burglary. Of course, the FBI under Hoover had its problems with autocratic control and operations outside the normal bounds of law enforcement. In 1980 Felt was convicted of approving "black-bag jobs," illegal searches of homes of relatives and friends of fugitive American radicals. (Felt was pardoned by Ronald Reagan in 1981.) Mann and others have speculated that Felt became Deep Throat for revenge as well: he had thought...
...otherness" (and despite its unabashed cheesiness, The 4400 parallels the events of 9/11 and Guantanamo Bay with intelligence), McKenzie was asked to play against type. (In the pilot series, the clairvoyant 8-year-old returnee confesses to agent Skouris how she wishes she were like everyone else. "What's normal?" asks Skouris. "You are," replies the girl.) The character felt right, McKenzie says, "and it's funny because the role is not like me at all. It is a stretch. But I just felt like the stars were lined up for me to do this." "? eight, nine...
...female who lived as recently as 18,000 years ago yet was only the size of a modern-day 6-year-old. Because the female skeleton looked humanoid rather than human and the brain size was small, the researchers concluded she was not a Pygmy?a short but otherwise normal version of Homo sapiens you still find in equatorial Africa and pockets of Southeast Asia?but a member of an entirely new species whom its discoverers named Homo floresiensis. This species, say the scientists, probably branched off from Homo erectus, the commonly accepted ancestor of Homo sapiens. The news meant...
...village of Rampasasa, Viktor Jurubu harbors no such doubts. He has the floor again and is recounting the story of how Paju, a famous warrior, ran into one of the "normal" people in the woods one day while out hunting. "This beautiful lady lit a fire and cooked the wild boar Paju had killed," Jurubu says. "She wanted to marry him and knew she could tempt him with the taste of cooked meat. He did like the taste, so he agreed to marry her and come out of Liang Bua with the rest of the tribe, founding a new village...