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...lack of couth: "I saw this thing on ITV the other week/ It said if she plays with her hair then she's probably keen/ She's playing with her hair well regularly, so I reckon I could well be in." To some that might seem like adolescent blather, but like Eminem in the U.S., Skinner draws the listener into the dark, angry, occasionally almost sweet thoughts of a British lad. And thanks to the way he tells it, that's a place people all around the world want...
...amNewYork (circ. 209,000), a daily designed to attract the younger set by keeping news short and photos plentiful. It's free, it's small, and it's largely paid for by the Tribune Co., one of the nation's largest publishing companies. "What these kids like is fast, blather free and unbiased," he says. "Something to give them a good, comprehensive scan of the country in 20 minutes...
...friends from Cornell who’ve arrived for the hockey game blather about an anticipated return to the NCAA tournament or their goalie’s performance while they expectantly await the next drop of the puck. Of course, the swarm of Big Red fans won’t be returning the hospitality offered by Harvard. At Cornell, there’s no room for the few Crimson fans willing to brave the six-hour trek through the wilderness of Upstate New York anyway. In each of the past two seasons, even Lynah’s standing-room only...
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...both counts. His opposition to the war is looking less radical every day. His style--his imprudence, his plain talk--just doesn't sound like the other guys. At the Dems' winter meeting in Washington, he arrived at the podium and, instead of lapsing into the usual thank-you blather, blasted off like a rocket-propelled grenade: "What I want to know is why so many Democrats in Washington aren't standing up against Bush's unilateral war in Iraq." This was followed by several more withering "What I want to knows" and then the introduction: "My name is Howard...