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...Besieged voters complain not just about the ads' volume but about their negativity as well. In a country where trashing politicians is a staple of late-night comedy and water-cooler banter, the only people who are not supposed to disparage politicians are their opponents. There seems to be little distinction between underhanded smears and hard, defensible attacks, only a growing consensus that making the basic argument of a campaign - that I am the right choice and my opponent the wrong one - is somehow dirty pool...
...case he has, not incidentally, made before). Novelists like Updike, Mailer and Irving, says Wolfe, write books that only other novelists of the same mistaken convictions would enjoy; more likely than not their most recent work "sank like a stone" from the public's interest. And yet they complain that there is a crisis in the health of the American novel, that nobody likes to read novels anymore-would-be readers would rather watch movies. Wolfe sees the same problem, and proposes a solution: "The American novel is dying, not of obsolescence, but of anorexia. It needs...food. It needs...
...students were to complain about a problem, "we'd certainly put that high on the list for renovation," he said...
...hypochondriacs out there. Quite perniciously, the first symptoms of the infection in the early stages are similar to those of the common flu. The CDC warns that most stricken with Ebola display high fever, headache, muscle aches, stomach pain, fatigue and diarrhea, and some patients also complain of sore throat, hiccups, rash and red itchy eyes within a few days post-infection. Of course, these symptoms could easily be confused with numerous every-day maladies (from the common flu to pre-midterm stresses), which is what makes Ebola so difficult to diagnose and quarantine early in an outbreak. Less common...
...time you feel depressed when you come home from interviewing a client," Lee says. "You can't complain about the dining hall food you're meeting with people that can't afford food...