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...past six weeks, a national opinion poll and a special issue of the Times Sunday magazine that appeared last weekend--it's that even with the extraordinary journalistic resources of the nation's best newspaper at your command, it's difficult to say anything really new about that age-old and immutable fact...
...after years of rumblings, the atrocities of the diamond wars in Angola and Sierra Leone have finally infiltrated the mainstream American press, and ever so slowly, the assumptions about engagement rings are starting to change. That shift, which strikes so many as a callous dismissal of age-old tradition, actually represents something of a throwback - the colored gems finding favor in today's market were also extremely popular among 18th- and 19th-century brides...
...like about The Patriot? Well it certainly suffers from irony deficiency. It is four-square for democracy and decency, and this, of course, will cause a certain amount of superciliousness among the postmodernist swells. Since it is a story about the American Revolution, it will suffer from the age-old suspicion of movies in which guys wear knee britches and write with quill pens. But if the mass audience can get behind Gladiator, why shouldn't it take a flier on more recent history? You telling us Russell Crowe is cuter than Mel Gibson? Or in his picture suffers more...
...need a summer job. All you need is a soundbyte. You, however, deserve the real deal. I am essentially at the whim of my supervisor. For example, she told me that my first week should be spent getting to know all the ins and outs of the age-old online supermarket industry. On Monday, I toured the warehouse. Tuesday, I pack products in the dry goods section. Wednesday, packing in the fresh foods section. Thursday I tackle frozen goods. Friday I help deliver. (I guess that Friday will be really casual...
...onboard supercomputer able to sense a parking spot 10 blocks away and beam an electronic force field there to save it until I arrived. Whoops, this just in: experts now forecast that by the year 2025 there won't be any parking spots. Drat! There goes the age-old dream of a handheld, Star Wars-based, in-car parking-meter jamming device...