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...rely on government assistance to buy food receive their aid. Meanwhile, he regularly invites local students into the store. "We're trying to teach the children how to eat properly," he says. Despite such tactics, Beyah regards himself as a pure businessman, not an activist. He's also an optimist - and hopes to open at least five stores in the coming years. "I will survive," he declares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can America's Urban Food Deserts Bloom? | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

...gloom-and-doom guy - I'm an optimist. I think we do have time to turn this around, and I think that the kinds of things we're doing will certainly help." - On his thoughts on the environment (Grist.org, January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida Governor Charlie Crist | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...profundity of the Nude's nudity, is now admiring her admirable breasts. Her third scene includes some wardrobe, namely a clear plastic raincoat, which has to be meaningful. Finally, she puts on a fuzzy sweater, but still no pants, which tends to draw the eye downward. Being an optimist, I prepared for Gael Garcia Bernal's pantless scene, but no go. By the end of Nude's screen time, Emperor Jarmusch himself seems a lot less cool, like maybe just an arty guy, with a fantastic eye, but some limits to his control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Limits of Control: Hitman of Your Dreams | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...general, I consider myself an optimist. Really, I do. But this Dartmouth team, in all its absurd awfulness, has rocked my faith in humanity and in the Hobbesian principle that the first law of human nature is self-interest...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Football Picks for Last Ivy Weekend | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...loped around campus in faded jeans, sporting stubble and shocks of long hair. Purely on image, it would be harder to get farther away from the student council Type-A suit. Chris was upbeat about his defeat, ever, he said, the “cock-eyed optimist.” “I’m not really surprised that I lost, I lost the first three elections of my high school, too. I understand that certain things work in college, certain things don’t,” he said. THE AUDACITY OF HOPE...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: Kids Who Would Be King | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

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