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...since Sept. 11—we need Britain’s help, but not as a partner in crime. We need a critical friend with the guts to look her erstwhile son in the eye and tell him to get back in line. The Blair government’s dote-and-nod approach toward America only encourages our disdain for dissenting views. But if Britain puts forward an alternative vision with enough conviction and repetition, then in time the American people will listen...
...Billboard chart, its own radio shows, if mostly on college stations. But it's a specialized, affirmative-action genre. Even if the definition is enlarged to include pop music from the Old World (from France, Italy, etc.), world music rarely catches the notice of the kids who dote on Destiny's Child or Uncle Kracker...
Which is apparently the last thing romance readers want to confront in their spare time. The rift between those who dote on and those who disdain romance novels really centers on the question of fantasy and its proper place in adult imagination. Here again sexism may play a part. Patriarchs have traditionally fretted about their womenfolk's being ruined by a book. Flaubert's Madame Bovary graphically portrayed the ruin that ensues when a young female's head is filled with romantic fancies. Can it really be good, modern critics wonder, for women to be whiling away so many hours...
...adore you. I feel an intense adulation for you. I am affectionate toward you. I am extremely attached to you. I cherish you, and dote on you. In fact, I am devoted to you. I fancy you. I am quite fond of you. I am infatuated with you. I feel very passionately about you. I idolize and worship you. I relish and savor you. I take great pleasure in you. I will always treasure you. You are my best friend. I like you. In other words, I don't love you. If I did I would have said...
Harvard is a gargantuan university with little time to dote on any single student. Every student is unique, extraordinary, and set to begin a thrilling and successful career. After college, students may have a chance to enjoy their proverbial 15 minutes of fame, but during their undergraduate years, students are lucky to have 15 seconds...