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...This embryo is more N.B. than he appears", a club member pleaded. "Take another look--have spent time hanging with him outside of tea, and is very curious about the Old Barn...
...nothing but bewilder the listener, as does a tune like "Strange Weather," with its hip jazz shimmy that sounds like it belongs on Sting's last album. Add in a trumpet solo (as Peck does on many tunes), a walking bass and sampled strings, and you have a very curious tune. It has the same value as the likes of buster Pointdexter or Thomas Dolby, minus the better arrangements, interesting voices, and performer personalities. Which brings us to yet another problem: Peck's songs and singing don't really reveal much about his personality, which makes them appealing pop radio...
...well and good -- except the document dodges the issue of how to finance such a plan or even how to estimate what it may cost. This was a curious oversight inasmuch as the same report specifically targets a rich source of funds: the billions of dollars in mortgage-interest tax deductions granted to the wealthiest one-fifth of American families...
...major differences between humans and apes, Johanson notes, are that the former are more intelligent and walk upright. There's one more: humans are intensely and endlessly curious about where and how they began. In Search of Human Origins will do much to satisfy that curiosity...
...toss around terms like "multiculturalism," but we no longer know what they mean. Indeed, our definitions have become distorted, twisted around. Once we spoke of assimilation and a "melting pot;" now, a new breed of scholarship emphasizes a curious form of academic segregation. Where once we studied and learned American history, now we study Afro-American, Asian-American and other ethnically-defined histories. And we do it in the name of multiculturalism...