Word: bored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ferrell said he carried the flag, which bore the Calhoun College coat of arms, away from the game back in a plastic bag under his coat, despite the attack...
...champion welfare and lobbying reform and some further-reaching proposals (like abolishing the Education and Energy departments) to prove he's serious about downsizing government. That course could let him posture again as an outsider agitating for change, but those efforts might eventually be seen as small bore. For greater heft, Clinton would be wise to embrace the option Rivlin clearly prefers...
...five bodies were found. Two were wearing red-and-gold medallions bearing a double-headed eagle and the initials T.S., for Temple Solaire, one name for Jouret's group. Three others -- a Swiss man and his British-born wife, both former sect members, and their three-month-old son -- bore stab wounds...
...about tactics designed with but one purpose: success. Even at the college level, coaches are paid their salaries for two reason, A) for running a clean, honest program, and B) for giving their teams the best chance to win every time out. And you can have both elements and bore the country to death with your style of play (connoisseurs of the option aside. I give you Tom Osborne's Nebraska football team), and your alumni will love you forever...
...also something shocking about this book, though not in a titillating way. The intimate tone in which Wurtzel narrates sordid detail after humiliating incident after debasing sexual encounter is almost obscenely exhibitionistic, even for our culture of confession, especially since it serves no purpose other than alternately to bore us and make us squirm. Perhaps it's meant to be inspirational--Wurtzel did a lot of crazy stuff, but she pulled through and she's not ashamed--but instead it's pathetic. Most of us will have to swallow a lot of Prozac before we're able to swallow this...