When his intimate moment with the beautiful girl who'd ignored him in high school became a movie reality, did he feel like a stand-in for nerds everywhere?

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The other nondrama is whether Harold Abrahams, son of a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant, will be accorded the respect due him as the fastest Englishman of his day (Liddell was a Scotsman.) Abrahams more or less is, and gets the beautiful girl in the process.

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Nazneen (Tannishtha Chatterjee), a beautiful Bangladeshi girl who, in the nineteen-eighties, gets sent to London to marry an established businessman, settles into Brick Lane, a traditional immigrant enclave.

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Christina was "a gentle, beautiful little girl, " said Teresa Bier, the parish's director of religious education.

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And now, as the father of a 6-year-old girl, I want to make sure the planet we leave her is at least as beautiful and healthy as the one we grew up on.

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