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...really your fault? If so, that's good news for Gingrich. Asked on TV a few months ago about his use of marijuana during the Vietnam period, he said it was merely a sign that he had been "alive and in graduate school in that era." Right. And smoking crack or having a child out of wedlock is merely a sign that you're alive and in the inner city in the 1990s...
...glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea- cup opens A lane to the land of the dead...
...human ovum, is called Sil. As embodied by model Natasha Henstridge, Sil has a voluptuously thin form and a face--severe and curiously bland--that never reveals its secrets. That's perfect for Species, since the audience's sympathies are meant to shift uneasily between the determination of a crack search team to keep the creature from reproducing and the desire of Sil to increase and multiply, engulf and devour. So Sil goes cruising L.A. bars. A gorgeous blond who just wants sex shouldn't have trouble getting a date. But Sil is picky: no junkies, no diabetics...
...fall "raises the question as to whether the U.N. force will be able to stay in Bosnia and perform its humanitarian mission." The Clinton Administration has been one of the biggest supporters of keeping U.N. forces in Bosnia, notes Thompson, but "with this statement we may be seeing a crack in its resolve...
Some truisms: peace is better than war. Any increase in sales of U.S. goods to foreigners is preferable to none. A door to Japanese markets pushed open a crack beats one slammed shut. So the auto-and-parts agreement concluded by U.S. and Japanese negotiators in Geneva last week, just barely in time to head off a possible transpacific trade war, looks beneficial to both sides...