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...expected to crush them," Moore said humbly...
...moral: Never believe in the fairy tales movie people create. They will buoy your spirit and, with the flick of a headline, crush it. Another moral: Don't always heed what you read. The tabloid newspapers, especially in New York City, have feasted on this fracas, one-upping each other daily in the body count of revoltin' developments. With all the soiled laundry of unverified allegations, the facts are hard to determine, let alone the truth. Every journalist is, perforce, a garbologist...
...subsequent lesbian liaisons but remained attracted to men. "I thought bisexuality was a phase I was going through before joining the lesbian community," recalls Listerud, now 29 and living in Chicago. But then, she would "bump into a guy in the cafeteria who was really cute or get a crush on a guy. Finally, it was like a little light bulb went off. I thought maybe bisexuality is real. I was absolutely terrified. It was undesirable; it was not politically correct. I was sure to be ostracized from the lesbian community...
...People realize that it's not the wholeadministration," Adler says. He says factionswithin the administration--especially at theBusiness and Medical Schools--Keep negotiationsfrom moving forward. We feel like they're tryingto crush the union," he says...
...weapon, the "debt bomb" has turned out to be a dud. That seems to be true in Latin America, anyway -- and that was where countries had piled up by far the greatest amount of the international debt that sparked despair a decade ago. Experts feared that the ious would crush economies in the Third World, while defaults on the loans would bring down big banks and cause a First World financial crisis...