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...even Fried's own history seems to substantiate Prescott's claim that contemporary America is a fallen world, at odds with its ideal past. A large part of the book's bite comes, in fact, from a half-humorous debunking of out historical myths: Emerson got most of his ideas from his Unitarian cohorts, Fried smirkingly insinuates, and Benjamin ("Early to bed, early to rise") Franklin never rose until noon. More substantively, it's hard to detect any real difference between, for example, the imperialism for which Julian chides the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Stuart Rantoul Prescott's glorious...
...course, no one operates any form of gambling without extracting a commission. But the biggest bite is clearly in lotteries, and the biggest of all is New York's 60%. Counting both the state's cut and operating expenses, the takeout in Maine and Ohio is 55%; in New Hampshire, which started the legal lottery craze in 1964, it is 50%. To get a piece of what is left, a ticket buyer still has to compete with the number of other tickets against him. The odds for winning any prize are not good. In New York, for instance...
...fault apparently is not in the star-who has fluffed nary a line, bantered easily with Reasoner, and put even more bite into her interviews than she did on NBC's Today show-but in her format. ABC's half-hour newscast was restyled to include Walters' interviews, unscripted dialogue and features on such self-help topics as health, psychology and personal finance. As a result, there has been less room for news. Reports from correspondents in the field, for instance, dropped to 140 in the first month of Walters' tenure, from 168 the month before...
...today's match against the Engineers, Rau is sure that the boys from downtown will bite his team harder than the Bulldogs...
...damn morning," he said, "and every time I felt the drawstring bite into my belly I thought, 'I'm going to see Sally. I'm going to see Sally in my bathing suit...