Almost a quarter of current and former enlisted troops think the skills they have acquired in the military have no use in civilian employment; only 2 percent of officers feel the same way. The military, which was showered with money to grow its ranks and acquire new equipment over the past decade, probably will be far smaller when his enlistment ends
Woody Allen - Biography - IMDb
I have a certain amount of obsessive themes and a certain amount of things I'm interested in and no matter how different the film is, whether it's Small Time Crooks (2000) here or Zelig (1983) there, you find in the end that it's Chinese food. There are people who commit all sorts of crimes and get away with it, and some of them are plagued with all sorts of guilt for the rest of their lives and others aren't
The Feminist Housewife: Can Women Have It All by Choosing to Stay Home? -- New York Magazine
Undistracted by office politics and unfettered by meetings or a nerve-fraying commute, she spends hours upon hours doing things that would make another kind of woman scream with boredom, chanting nursery rhymes and eating pretend cake beneath a giant Transformers poster. Fifty years after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, women represent only a tiny fraction of corporate and government leaders, and they still earn only 77 cents on the male dollar
Well done, you're drifting! But did you know it's often the slower option when it comes to fast laps in Driveclub? As with OutRun 2, getting your car's wheels in good contact with the road and accelerating through a corner is faster than sliding around it sideways. Hitting the back of another car too hard will incur a penalty that reduces your engine power for a few seconds, and you certainly don't need that when you're trying to set a fast time
Which sounds unremarkable, maybe, but is anomalous among people for whom all the traditional signifiers of success (fame, adulation, profit) have been realized. A year had passed since she'd tugged on a flesh-colored latex bikini and intimated digital intercourse with a foam finger while Robin Thicke, bedecked in Beetlejuice stripes, stood smirking behind his aviators
TSA Agent Confession - POLITICO Magazine
People holding passports from the selectee countries were automatically pulled aside for full-body pat-downs and had their luggage examined with a fine-toothed comb. The selectee list was purely political, of course, with diplomacy playing its role as always: There was no Saudi Arabia or Pakistan on a list of states historically known to harbor, aid and abet terrorists
Because of the sensitive nature of Jackie's story, we decided to honor her request not to contact the man who she claimed orchestrated the attack on her nor any of the men who she claimed participated in the attack for fear of retaliation against her. In the months Sabrina Rubin Erdely reported the story, Jackie said or did nothing that made her, or Rolling Stone's editors and fact-checkers, question her credibility
Tim Cook: 'I'm Proud to Be Gay' - Bloomberg Business
Bloomberg Businessweek editor Josh Tyrangiel discusses being approached by Cook to tell his story and what prompted him to come forward at this point in time. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has acknowledged that he is gay for the first time in an essay written for the latest edition of Bloomberg Businessweek
Fiction: The Most Dangerous Game
"You've good eyes," said Whitney, with a laugh," and I've seen you pick off a moose moving in the brown fall bush at four hundred yards, but even you can't see four miles or so through a moonless Caribbean night." "Nor four yards," admitted Rainsford. The sensuous drowsiness of the night was on him." It's so dark," he thought, "that I could sleep without closing my eyes; the night would be my eyelids--" An abrupt sound startled him
Everybody in his neighbourhood appears to have a story about how he would make a beeline to shake their hand, or offer to help them out by moving furniture or anything else that needed doing. The Knights had lost one of the most promising players; his tight-knit family was thrown into despair; and a question echoed around the streets of the tiny town of Bladenboro, North Carolina: what had happened to Lennon Lacy? The last person known to have seen Lacy alive was his father, Larry Walton
High school students articulate their personalities, perspectives and values in how they spend their time outside of the classroom, and what they choose to discuss in their personal statements. Her command of the language, her knowledge and her commitment to finish the article and get it published are sure to serve her well throughout her life
The Transgender Tipping Point
Almost one year after the Supreme Court ruled that Americans were free to marry the person they loved, no matter their sex, another civil rights movement is poised to challenge long-held cultural norms and beliefs. In 1980, seven years after homosexuality was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a classification bible published by the American Psychiatric Association, transsexualism was added
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A message saying so merely confirms a piece of news some secret vein had already received, severing from me an irreplaceable part of myself, letting it loose like a kite on a broken string. Listen to what they have to say, the words tumbling together into a wrathful tune: "A child of seven! whiskey on his breath! are you out of your mind? feeding a child of seven! must be loony! road to ruination! remember Cousin Kate? Uncle Charlie? Uncle Charlie's brother-inlaw? shame! scandal! humiliation! kneel, pray, beg the Lord!" Queenie sneaks under the stove
Furthermore, I was full of uneasiness as to what Bartleby could possibly be doing in my office in his shirt sleeves, and in an otherwise dismantled condition of a Sunday morning. Immediately then the thought came sweeping across me, What miserable friendlessness and loneliness are here revealed! His poverty is great; but his solitude, how horrible! Think of it
Lady Gaga: Our Lady of Pop - Vogue
The song at first sounds suspiciously like a Madonna tune and then switches into something that feels a bit like a Bronski Beat hit and then finally transforms into its own thing: a Gaga original. And funnily enough, I still live in the same apartment, hang out with the same friends, drink at the same bars, and I dance in the same studios with the same dancers
But how can a grown-up, even one happy to be reminded of the shivers of first love, not also roll her eyes? Most importantly, these books consistently indulge in the kind of endings that teenagers want to see, but which adult readers ought to reject as far too simple. Senators Introduce Legislation to Protect Your Car From Being Hacked Download This Windows Patch Right Now Drones Keep Getting in the Way of Firefighting in California
We needed to get the pillows fluffed on the sofa and we needed to get the drapes steamed, and we needed to get everything all nice and get the presentation just right. head writer who hired Fey and taught her first improv class in Chicago, remembers one night when a bunch of comics were having drinks after a performance at the Upright Citizens Brigade
He lost narrowly to his Democratic opponent, Kathleen Blanco, a defeat staffers blamed on concerns in northern Louisiana, a conservative Baptist stronghold, about his background. Spam Offensive Disagree Off-Topic Facebook Twitter Reddit StumbleUpon Digg Delicious Most Read 1 Clinton lags among voters in swing states against leading GOP hopefuls 2 Poll: Trump surges to big lead in GOP presidential race 3 Liberals have won a series of victories on social issues
Within the self-contained world of that album, this was both a low-point and a high-point, with Lana copping to utter reliance on men but also having the self-awareness to say so. When she first started doing shows in 2006, while studying metaphysics at Fordham University in the Bronx, it was with a folky bent and a guitar that her uncle taught her how to play
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