This latest version, based on a print found in the Harvard Film Archive of a cut Mr. Hardy prepared for an American release, runs 92 minutes — still nine minutes short of the original, but close enough to please Mr. Hardy, who has given his blessings to this digitally restored edition.
Egypt has kept the border closed partly to please America, which props up Mr Mubarak with aid, partly because his government loathes Hamas as a branch of its own Muslim Brotherhood, and partly in the hope of forcing Hamas to cede legitimacy to the PA, thereby keeping prospects for Palestinian unity and future peace dealings with Israel alive.
Ask the person closest to something to please pass it to you.
On April 10, the hedge fund's filing said, Mr. Rothman pressed Paramax to "please close this trade already"; in mid-May, the hedge fund pulled the trigger on the deal.
(In fact, I was going to ask anyone reading this column who knew of more than one downtown hardware store in the area that had closed in recent years to please e-mail me at [email protected]. But I quickly realized that would be asking for it: there are bound to be exceptions, and all you sharp readers will be only too quick to point them out).
Every single time you felt ready to sing a Madonna, Whitney Houston, or Celine Dion song out in public, you closed your heart off to please your friends, family, and peers so you wouldn't get teased.
Yes, we're told that Brick is drinking himself into oblivion because of the death of his best friend, Skipper, to whom he was suspiciously close; that Big Mama exists to please Big Daddy and dotes on Brick; and that Big Daddy is as filled with the hunger for living (which includes good ole sex) as Maggie.
"I do this because I want to be closer to God, I want to please him and I want to live a modest lifestyle," said Ms. Ahmed, who asked that her appearance without a veil not be described.
In closing, I invited Christiane Amanpour to please join me at the canonization of Mother Teresa as a saint this September with the Holy Father, Pope Francis.
The guy was mumbling, close to tears: "Yes, but please can I go now", and the clip rumbled on in this sordid fashion for a couple more minutes.
