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...awkward at the very beginning until someone broke the ice and asked someone to dance," she says...
...device combining in one small, supersmart package the qualities of a PDA, cell phone and pager--allowing you to schedule, e-mail, call, beep and surf without missing a beep. That could happen, but don't count on it. Skeptics say the result would be neither fish nor fowl--awkward as a PDA and awkward as a phone. For now, it's probably best to choose a device based on what your primary need is. (After all, you still have a separate telephone, TV and VCR at home.) If you want voice, get a phone. If you want data...
...fathers to start a conversation intended to patch up their differences. But the missed message also turns out to be the operative metaphor for the Bush-McCain rapprochement. In the two months since Bush knocked McCain out of the primaries, relations between the victor and the vanquished have been awkward and tense, with anonymous aides trading acerbic barbs in the press. By the time the two men met in the Westin William Penn hotel in Pittsburgh, Pa., last Tuesday, negotiations had been going on for so long--practically since the day McCain dropped out--that both walked into the room...
WHAT IF? Maybe the wild new-economy America is the old America. Truer to ourselves. We came here to break free, to make our records in our awkward ways, as did my German grandfather Jacob Ebert Peters. He arrived in the 1880s and was a wildly successful Baltimore contractor 30 years later. Then he lost it all in the Great Depression. How quintessentially American...
...situation is so complex that, in places, Ragozzino and director Andrew Boch '02 seem to struggle with understanding their own universe. One awkward example arises from the fact that both Chaffin and John Gravois play Matthew Circland at age 42, yet Gravois has been 42 for 21 years. This seems to contradict the text's own (generally acceptable) logic. The problem manifests itself as a result of the overlap in the existence of the two Matthews. While other Matthews appear (Jeff Klann, age 21 and Matthew Ciborowski, age 12), Chaffin's Matthew clashes less directly with them; they exist...