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...went back into the crack den/dressing room, and decided that, perhaps, I had been hasty and sensitive, and maybe I just needed to give this lascivious trash another shot. Besides, how expensive could a dress made out of scraps of cotton...
...time Snow likened stem-cell research to murder. He invoked the unfortunate cliché "tar baby" early on, but just as interesting as his missteps are his striking successes. He said Bob Woodward's book, critical of the Bush Administration's handling of Iraq after the invasion, was "like cotton candy--it kind of melts on contact." After John Kerry was caught in a gaffe that appeared to demean the armed forces, Snow thundered, "This is an absolute insult...
...PRINCETON (6-0, 3-0)Wow. You’re in a fairy tale land. So pretty here. Don’t even bother with elective decision-making. Just sit back on the wings of a kindly dragon and enjoy this rainbow-shaded scenario while eating clouds made of cotton candy.Princeton’s senior QB Jeff Terrell, an archetype of toughness and experience against Harvard last week, falters versus Cornell’s second-ranked pass defense. The Tigers’ vaunted defense, which held Clifton Dawson to just 64 yards on the ground, can not contain underrated...
...approach to books as yet another product to be marketed has its downside. In some ways, “Mindless Eating” is intellectual instant gratification, the literary equivalent to delicious but airy cotton candy. Though Wansink explores the possible implications of the studies for weight loss strategies, he never considers any of the greater implications...
...Born in Cairo in 1946, the son of a cotton industry official and a Nubian mother (the ethnic group found in southern Egypt and northern Sudan), Ibrahim got an engineering degree and started working for a telecommunications company in Sudan. He got his Ph.D. in the then-obscure field of mobile telecommunications, and eventually started a company called Celtel to develop mobile phone services in Africa. By 2005 it was operating all over the continent and was sold to a Kuwaiti company for $6 billion - the source of Ibrahim's wealth. He contends that Celtel never paid a bribe...