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When you take my arm, and we begin that awkward stately walk toward your husband-to-be, I will envy him only one thing. He will be able to see you coming toward him. He will behold you in your brightness, confidence and wonder, as you cause everyone to gasp in amazement--just as you did the day you were first presented to the world...
...Hatch was a tough and consistent presenceon the defensive end, using stiff checks andphysical play to shut down opposing attackmen.Underappreciated his entire career, one could makea strong case for Ivy League recognition, but iteluded him, just as he eluded riding attackmenwith awkward but highly effective stick-work...
...Clinton Administration and the U.S. Congress take the threat seriously, but are preoccupied with other issues. The trade-minded Clintonites are more interested in cracking open India's vast, protected markets. "We were telling the Indians we'd prefer not to talk about awkward subjects like nuclear proliferation and concentrate on trade instead," says Gary Millhollin at the Wisconsin University Project on Nuclear Arms Control...
...narrow room, a meter and a half wide, decorated with the awkward minimalism that passes for modern chic in the still Communist world: peeling white paint, tilting buffet tables, schoolroom chairs bolted together into haphazard couches. But the attraction here isn't the decor; it's the machines: a beige Compaq Proliant 2500 computer and an off-white Dell Poweredge, hooked into a refrigerator-size rack of network routers and, from there, via a thumb-thick black cable, to the infinite abundance of the Internet. Edward Zeng, the 35-year-old Chinese entrepreneur who commands this tiny outpost...
...Bales. The good news is that the erections resulting from such injections can last an hour or more, even after orgasm, though depending on one's taste and circumstances, this too could be a downside. Other treatments, which involve vacuum pumps, penile implants and penis rings, are no less awkward or, to get to the heart of the matter, no more conducive to the spontaneous, unselfconscious, beautiful sex that Calvin Klein ads imply is our daily right...