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...We’re definitely prepared for the Ivies,” Hynes said. “We just have to keep our focus and practice the little things.” “If we can straighten out a few things between now and the Ivies, we should be serious contenders to win,” Ryan said...
...down at one of the tables and munched away on our borekas. Galit asked about my ethnicity and then told me stories of Indian men she encountered in her youth in London. “When I straighten my hair, everyone thinks I am Indian. They all thought that I was an Indian girl.” I laughed and wondered whether the reverse would work, if I could pass off as a Sephardic...
...high-minded reformers who want to drag the Augusta National Golf Club into the 21st century seem to have mixed up Tiger Woods with Bagger Vance--the angelic black caddy in the eponymous film who uses supernatural powers to help a white golf pro get over the yips and straighten out his love life. Or perhaps they have confused the world's best golfer with the hulking black convict in The Green Mile, played so powerfully by Michael Clarke Duncan, who never gets a chance to use his supernatural powers to cure another black person, only white people. Both characters...
Leaving the room to go onstage for a brief, post-screening Q&A with the audience, Derrida ran a hand through his hair to straighten it. He talked about how I had made him conscious of his hair. Deconstructionists can't let anything go. At the discussion, someone asked Derrida what kind of music he likes, and he revealed his love for free jazz and told a really long story about how Ornette Coleman once got him to read onstage during a show. "His fans were so unhappy they started booing. It was a very unhappy event...
Since Heizo Takenaka was appointed Japan's Financial Services Minister five weeks ago, he's been remarkably blunt about what was needed to straighten out the country's overextended, reform-proof banks, those black holes that continue to suck the life out of Japan's economy. A hard landing was required, he said. Hopeless loans?Xthere are at least $420 billion worth of them?Xhad to be sold off on the cheap or written off once and for all. In addition, the government would have to take over banks that were insolvent by any definition other than that of wishful...