Word: beholds
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...Even those considered forward thinkers of their respective eras hold back nothing in expressing their disgust with the profession. Charles Dickens is remembered to have said, "If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers," and Benjamin Franklin once noted, "God works wonders now and then: Behold! a lawyer, an honest...
...Then fate, deus ex machina, bizarrely intervenes. Behold: The formidable Giuliani implodes. Troubles descend upon him in an avalanche - not all the sorrows of Job, but a few of them. Giuliani is diagnosed with prostate cancer. His marriage of many years cracks apart, and he handles it maladroitly, announcing the breakup to the world without bothering to tell his wife that the marriage is over. His affair with another woman becomes a feast for tabloids. The private Rudy seems to shriek confirmation of his enemies' suspicions about the public Rudy...
...magazine is titled "Rising Tide" (after the unofficial Republican motto: "A Rising Tide Sinks Everything but Yachts") and is full of quite interesting news about the Democratic candidates. Behold the articles on page 29, "Democrats Play the Race Card While Calling People 'Cripple' and 'Fatso,'" and page 30, "Cabinet Secretaries Moonlight as Gore Flacks." And the cover story: a Gore Supreme Court lineup that's made up of Hillary and Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Naomi Wolf, Al Sharpton, Barbara Streisand, James Carville, Rosie O'Donnell and Larry Flynt...
...cheating. But let's climb down from our ivory tower for a minute to examine reality. Imagine that it's 3 a.m., the night before your big CS problem set is due. You check the website to see if anything has been posted on the discussion page, and behold, the professor has posted the solution to the problem! You check the solution and immediately recognize the flaw in your program that has been plaguing you all night. You fix a few lines in your program and grab a few hours of sleep before class the next morning. Is this cheating...
...behold, the Big Green took one from the Quakers, 89-71, the good news coming after the Harvard-Princeton game wrapped up with a 73-67 Crimson...