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...London record shop and enjoys rattling off lists of his top five favorite Elvis Costello songs or episodes of Cheers. When Rob's friends suggest that he should test women with a questionnaire about their favorite artists and musicians, Rob jokes that it is "intended to prevent a chap from leaping into bed with someone who might at a later date turn out to have every Julio Iglesias record ever made...
...process, senior quarterback Joe Moorhead, a polite, soft-spoken chap from Pittsburgh, Penn., had picked the Crimson apart, racking up nearly 250 passing yards in the second half and doing more damage to Harvard's collective ego than anyone could imagine...
...business partner branch out into insurance fraud. Soon the lizards are frisking: sleazy developers, mendacious salesmen, crooked building inspectors, clueless and boorish tourists. These sorry folk are what is called the fabric of society. Hiaasen's good guys are far out on the fabric's fringe: a decent chap who collects human skulls, and a huge, one-eyed wild man who lives in the swamps and eats roadkill. That this gent is a former Governor of Florida, an honest politician driven to distraction by greedsters, says all that is necessary about the author's view of government. Hiaasen's shabby...
...September, 1994, Chung went to the Coop to buy A Treatise of Human Nature by some chap named Hume. In Janurary, 1995, believe it or not, he raved with unquestioned expertise about Hume's theories to his pre-med friends for three hours over dinner. "God, how come I've begun to like Moral Reasoning?" Chung asked himself curiously, "Anyway, I'll surely take more philosophy courses. Wait, shall I switch my concentration?" Probably not--not philosophy, that is, because he is taking Social Analysis this semester, which he finds even more enjoyable...
...London outlet for her West Coast flimflam. For all his rapture in her, George proves to be a resistant victim. Unlike Katy's, his spirit is dull and earthbound. He remembers his own humble roots before he prospered in a packaging business, before his best friend--a carefree chap whose background was similar to his--died of cancer. As the fool in George plots marriage, the essential George--bland--walks all over London, even stopping by his dead friend's apartment in an effort to hang on to his sanity...