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...life, Lemmon became one of American cinema's grand old men, almost by default - all his first bananas had long since left us. And as those small yet bottomless eyes became beveled-off with crinkled skin, that look - plaintive, pleading, pathetic - never left them. His biographer was convinced he knew...
Panelist Ray Suarez, of the Newshour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, said that “we still see a white person as the default person, a regular person...
...While the American side of 49th-parallel rivalry is one that delights in blind ignorance and the default knowledge that America must be richer, more powerful and more important than whatever nation it is pitted against, not so that of Canada. Our parasitic patriotism is rooted not in what we are, but rather what we?...
...players who earned Jackson's opprobrium are gone; even Gates has receded under the considerable shadow of CEO Steve Ballmer. Windows XP, due out this fall, is much more respectful of non-Microsoft software than its predecessors (they've made it very easy to choose Netscape as your default browser, for example). Dubious add-ons like the "smart tags" that linked words to websites chosen by Microsoft have been quietly ditched...
...wanted to be a nurse since I was a youngster,” says Fitzgerald, who came to Harvard by default when MGH’s nursing program wouldn’t accept her because she was too young...