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...proposal. “The most difficult part of the application process was coming up with the idea—thinking of something substantial that could happen in one summer,” Kobiljar said. In high school she organized fundraisers to benefit a Bosnian orphanage, and she spent the past two summers working for Friendship Without Borders at a camp in Sarajevo designed to help children traumatized by war. “From comparable projects in the past, I knew there was a willingness to rebuild and an enthusiasm for participating in these kinds of community reconstruction projects...
...only that was the end of the story. After press conferences for the 7 p.m. game ended after midnight, I spent the next hour-and-a-half writing my stories. While waiting on line at a cheesesteak truck, the time changed from 2 to 3. I dripped Cheez Whiz all over my sneakers, shared a cab ride with three girls intent on making “sexual” the English language’s most-used adjective, and proceeded on to the airport for a 6 a.m. flight. Next thing I know I’m being shaken awake...
...says.“I remember getting it and thinking, ‘God, I can’t believe they would consider me for this role, because it just so is not what is out there of me.’” After all, McMahon spent 48 episodes as a warlock on “Charmed,” and is nothing if not a slick ladies’ man on “Nip/Tuck,” which has thus far kept him occupied for 59 episodes. “It’s a very...
...nonetheless addresses it several times in his writing (he declined to believe in God but admitted that for some physicists, faith and science are compatible).It appears that studying the mysteries of the universe naturally leads to the consideration of whether there is anything behind it all. Having spent time as both a theoretical physicist and an Anglican priest, John Polkinghorne attempts to straddle the two worlds of science and theology. His goal is not to defend religion or to place it in a hierarchy above science, but rather to show that theology and physics have distinct similarities...
...before 1,700 true believers at the 1985 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), he proclaimed, "The tide of history is moving irresistibly in our direction. Why? Because the other side is virtually bankrupt of ideas. It has nothing more to say, nothing to add to the debate. It has spent its intellectual capital." At this year's conference two weeks ago, Reagan's name was invoked more than anyone else's. But the mood at the most storied annual gathering of conservatives was anything but triumphal. John McCain, the Establishment favorite to win the 2008 Republican nomination, skipped CPAC entirely...