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...confirm that this was the case, the researchers then tried to force people to pay attention to both of the patches at the same time...
...number of female students have received harassing phone calls in the last two weeks from an anonymous male who speaks in a whisper, the police confirm...
...York Times reporter a "major-league asshole." The Governor then admitted that he hadn't explained his tax plan correctly, raising questions about whether he knew what was in it at all. Vanity Fair argued that the candidate was dyslexic, which some of his performances only seemed to confirm. He was running ads suggesting that Gore was scared to debate him, which confirmed the sense that the reverse was true. A front-page New York Times story detailed the subliminal use of rats followed by the phrase BUREAUCRATS DECIDE in a Bush campaign advertisement. "If I had to write...
...asking for. Boies argued that the only discretion Secretary of State Katherine Harris really needs is to make sure her office can muster a final answer in time for Dec. 12. And since her duties are merely a "ministerial act" - a contention the Bush team later appeared to confirm - certainly the hand counts could go on until, say, December 9 or so without serious damage to the rights of the Florida electorate...
Welty's work deserves to be seen, if only to confirm that the ordinary, if collected and reconfigured, can be made into something absolutely wacky. And after seeing her massive displays of twist ties, you will never think of opening a bread bag quite the same...