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...ends the Fly's brief reign as the dim light of equality in the den of elitism. Had the club finally admitted women, at least the stain of sexism could have been removed from its elitist fabric. Now, both remain...
...away with next to nothing can do so here in Service Athletics B-23: Cambridge Youth Soccer. But watch out, if you get in sections 1-7, you're going to be coaching teams from Cambridgeport. They may not speak English too well, and take a rather dim view of authority. Carding can get ugly here...
...Milo Minderbinder. Milo, no surprise, now owns a conglomerate that is trying to sell a "Sub-Supersonic Invisible and Noiseless Defensive Second-Strike Offensive Attack Bomber," code-name Shhhhh!, to the U.S. government. That entity has been left, thanks to the President's resignation, in the hands of a dim Vice President from Indiana who wants to be sworn in by the Chief Justice of the U.S., but this cannot be done because the Chief Justice has also resigned and a new one cannot be sworn in until there is a sworn-in President to do it. After this...
...even his friends await Aristide's homecoming with mixed emotions. Aristide took a dim view of U.S. interference in the hemisphere: many of his sermons attacked the U.S. government -- though never, as he liked to point out, "the American people." After hearing so much from him about the evils of U.S. policy, it is hard for his disciples to understand why he would agree to return hand in hand with the U.S. military...
Halfway through her powerfully affecting novel One True Thing (Random House; 289 pages; $22), Anna Quindlen pauses, swabs her forehead with a bandanna (so the wrung-out reader imagines) and sums up: "Our parents are never people to us, never, they're always character traits, Achilles' heels, dim nightmares, vocal tics, bad noses, hot tears, all handed down and us stuck with them...