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Throughout the season, D'Souza showed the toughness that helped to distinguish her as one of the league's top goalies. Two days before the Brown game, D'Souza broke a finger on her stick hand, and could barely grip her stick. Although she was hurt, she posted a shutout in the Crimson...
...many other kinds of behavior during pregnancy. What about drinking? Smoking? Taking prescription drugs? Or working too hard? "Are we going to be policing people's wine closets?" asks Stanford University law-school professor Deborah Rhode. Other legal scholars insist that such "slippery slope" arguments are exaggerated; laws commonly distinguish between reckless behavior and acceptable risk...
American Psycho, scheduled to be published by Simon & Schuster in January, runs 362 pages in edited manuscript. Crawls, actually. Barely distinguishable chapters are stuffed with the brand names of expensive suits, shoes and wristwatches, endless spoofs of nightclubs and restaurants and rambling reviews of pop records. The litany of the trivial is intentional, though Ellis seems to be writing for people who take forever to get the point. Instead of a plot, there is a tapeworm narrative that makes it unnecessary to distinguish the beginning of the novel from...
...Peri seems to distinguish herself when things are not going as well...
BELIEVING that politicians will keep their campaign promises has always required a certain naivete. Only savvy Washington-watchers know how to distinguish the various varieties of campaign promises, how to draw the line between mere half-truth and actual lies. And only the most green of Beltway newcomers would maintain that full candor is a part of the campaign...