Word: ways
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...that point, caseworkers did not even know which services might be available for children. They had no way of comparing notes or logging resources. They had no flexibility in meeting individual needs. They had no guidelines for contact between children in foster care and their birth parents. In most cases, the rules simply forbade...
...behalf of the Harold Lloyd Trust, alleges that the Walt Disney Co. violated federal copyright law because The Waterboy is "demonstrably a copy of The Freshman," the 1924 comedy classic starring her grandfather. Like The Waterboy, The Freshman told the story of a bumbling football waterboy who happens his way onto the team, becomes the butt of jokes, falls in love with a local girl and wins the big game, fueled by hatred for his tormentors. Although Sandler received a shared writing credit on the film, he is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit. Discerning cineastes have long...
...mother, the sea-goddess Thetis, that vanquishing Hector on the battlefield will precipitate his own demise, he unhesitatingly opts for the gusto. "I'll lie in peace once I've gone down to death," he exclaims. "But now for the moment, let me seize great glory!" (The Iliad is way WWF.) Vince, don't choke with The Game on the line. To paraphrase the late Barry Goldwater, the last major presidential candidate who wasn't afraid to lose big, "Xtremism in defense of football is no vice...
...perfectly happy about being black and didn't consider it an insult," she says. "So I just singled one of them out--he had really lank, greasy hair and acne--and I said to him, 'What about the way you look? You should look in the mirror. I know who I am.' Once they were afraid of being singled out and humiliated, they left me alone...
Motherhood also prompted a shift in her priorities. "It changes the way you work. I used to just go into a studio and just stay there until the album was done. I could be completely selfish and immerse myself," she says. "[Being a mother] made me stronger as a person. To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend...