Word: comfortes
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...should be thankful. Their names will be remembered, and due to the prevalence of first-year facebooks (buy it even if you're not in it), your face will be as well. For the rest of us Chrises and Sarahs, you can always use your last name. Take comfort in the fact that once people learn your name, they'll say it correctly. Unusual names, on the other hand, are sometimes given unusual pronunciations: "Do you know that girl named...
...suddenly, you're legal, and while most of us (sadly) will never meet you in person, we take comfort in the knowledge that the English press will keep us posted in the meantime, hounding you relentlessly and flooding the world with millions of photos you'd really rather didn't exist...
...Matrix. In Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash--a cult classic in Silicon Valley--our hero, Hiro Protagonist, goes there wearing goggles and a pair of virtual-reality gloves. It's where I expect to be spending my evenings in the twilight of my life, without ever leaving the comfort of my sofa. And--who knows?--maybe I'll meet you there...
...there's little cause for comfort in all this for the White House. Washington has already been served notice that Putin is no slouch, but Primakov's obviously influential presence in his court suggests that the new president may be guided by Russia's best coach in the art of competing with Washington from a position of weakness...
...meeting this morning on Nantucket, we were sipping our fresh-brewed iced tea after a rigorous game of touch football on the lawn when it occurred to us that our summer 2000 line would work extremely well in a tropical island setting. Think bold prints, understated lines and classic comfort: We're sending you several samples, and hope you will forward them on to your 'castaways' without delay...