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...told me. All of them are very good at distracting themselves. The hardest part often is just to sit down. When Larry Weinstein and I were at the Writing Center, we used to joke that the single most important implement for a writer was a pot of glue: you paint it on the chair and then you sit down...
...October 1996, a mentally disturbed woman scratched the paint on 10 cars parked along the streets of Hamburg, Germany's freewheeling port city. The woman found herself before a judge named Ronald Barnabas Schill, who promptly sentenced her to two-and-a-half years in prison for her vandalism. Stunned, newspapers branded Schill Judge Merciless, and the sobriquet stuck through a sheaf of draconian sentences. Trading on his law-and-order image, Schill organized his own political party, the Law and Order Offensive, and won a stunning 19.4% of the vote in municipal elections last year. Now he is taking...
...free throws from Peljto, an advantage Harvard would hold for the entire game. The Crimson extended its lead to 10 when, with just over 12 minutes left in the half, Monti made a long pass to Cserny and she sent the ball to Peljto, standing alone in the paint, who made a layup for a score of 13-3. Six seconds later, Cserny assisted another Peljto basket, as Harvard climbed on the scoreboard...
...mother, my father, and God brought me into this world with the talent to paint, and without anybody teaching me,” she said...
...pace to break 600,000 this season. Valuable sponsors are eager to plaster their logos on team jerseys and arena signboards. Homegrown superstars are emerging, such as rangy prodigies Hu Weidong, a crowd-pleasing Jiangsu Dragons forward, and Yao Ming, a 2.23-m windmill who regulates the paint for the Shanghai Sharks. Showtime in the CBA has all the trappings of big-time hoops. It's becoming a credible entertainment replete with thunderjams, jiggly cheerleaders and thousands of screaming spectators...