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...unbelievable," Johnson wrote in the Daily Telegraph. His party's nemesis, he added, "is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness." The escape artist, of course, was Prime Minister Tony Blair, who had managed to slip out of a political bind - make that two of them - that could have forced him from office. On Tuesday, Blair squeezed a scant five-vote victory - despite Labour's 161-vote majority in the House of Commons - to clear the path of a bill to charge students more to attend university. (He'd staked...
...fairly common," says Barnaby Barratt, president-elect of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists. In his quarter-century of private practice as a therapist in southeastern Michigan, Barratt says, "hundreds, if not thousands" of married couples have told him they want to bind, paddle or play teacher/pupil with each other...
...Ties that Bind...
Actually, the soldiers rarely admit to any deep kinship. The ties that bind any platoon are fashioned by circumstance. "Out here, I'd take a bullet for any one of these guys," says Schermerhorn. "But there are probably three people here I'd give a s___ about keeping in touch with when I get home." Says Whiteside: "We get on each other's nerves because we see each other every day. But being stuck with someone 24/7, all there is to do is talk. Basically, it's like one big dysfunctional family...
...between self-study as a way of expanding our views, and self-study that threatens to swallow us (the kind of writing that my blockmate had ridiculed). That is, if I am going to spend my time stringing words together, I hope that these strings become the ties that bind, not constrict...