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...than roller skates and are difficult to stop. Most accidents involve first timers who have had little or no instruction. And though there is good protective gear available, a majority of bladers prefer to breeze along unpadded. The most feared injuries are to the head, yet few bladers will deign to don helmets. "They're hot inside and mess up your hair," says Neil Feineman, author of a how-to book for skaters entitled Wheel Excitement. Although he always wears a helmet in street traffic, Feineman adds, "They're hard on the Walkmans...
...Lovers Club in Dzerzhinsky, where the editors conducted a random taste test with some finicky felines. Last week, in an article titled "May the Cats Judge Us," the paper reported the results of its poll: out of 30 cats, only a two-month-old kitten named Mura would deign to dine on the suspect sausage. Asked the Gazeta: "All kitties, like Mura, must loyally love sausage. That's the way it's always been since man thought up sausage. But why, the devil take them, won't they eat it? And why do we continue...
Kinder, gentler policies, also, if you would deign...
...would require in return is for a few Harvard scholars to deign to venture into such schools as Morehouse or Spelman for a year at a time. Presto, Harvard would have a minority presence on its faculty...
Even when feminists deign to consider the classic thinkers of other social sciences, their arrogance is staggering, Susan Okin, for instance, in Women in Western Political Thought, describes John Stuart Mill as a "far-thinking feminist" but a limited thinker. Okin claims that Mill failed to consider adequately life outside the structure of the family. Fortunately feminist thinkers have transcended Mill's intellectual limitations...