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Apparently, Molinari didn't know that the first time she was asked about marijuana, in 1992. She said she'd never smoked pot, leaving herself open to being nailed later for lying. Now she understands the drill. When she followed the prescribed script, she instantly became virtuous enough to open the convention. There were no complaints, even from those militant Christian-morality monitors I have come to think of as the Khomeini wing of the Republican Party. Dole and I went back to our Scotches...
...eight. The place was called Ludgrove, and it was an exclusive feeding station for Eton. To Americans the notion of sending so young a child out to board seems cruel, but those who have weathered the experience point out that if a child didn't start the English drill early, he'd never adjust to it or even get the point. American writer Paul Watkins, who grew up in the system at a school similar to Ludgrove and at Eton, has written a perceptive book about his experience, called Stand Before Your God. He says, "It's a singular existence...
...William has that Etonian look already. The boys are burnished; they are like angels, you know, and they float around the world." It is likely that during his five years there, Wills won't have too much time to think about his battling parents. His day is a strict drill. Up at 8, compulsory chapel after breakfast, classes all morning. A lengthy sports session follows, and afternoon classes start at 4. The traditional university prep subjects are required, but some outre electives like Swahili and cooking are offered. There is also counseling for boys whose parents are divorcing. Britain...
...knockabout one minute, knockover the next. In a way, that suits Jim Carrey's comic genius, with its eerie blend of sublime self-confidence and anarchical menace. To see him, as the eponymous electronics installer, engage in passionate foreplay with a wall, seeking its perfect cable G-spot, then drill into it in rapacious fury, is to be transported to a realm of exquisitely mixed light and dark. Like Matthew Broderick, as the customer watching this performance, fearful and fascinated, we have no choice but to let him further into our lives...
...budget a few months ago, Daschle asked Kerrey to say a few words about the coming Senate races. Cosseted in the clubbish ways of the Senate, Kerrey's colleagues were expecting gentlemanly homilies on the need to pitch in. Instead, recalls Daschle, "he began shouting like a drill sergeant, knocking out orders for the amount of fundraising he expected: 'Take it out of your own pocket, take it out of your campaign funds, go and raise it!'" Finally, a female Senator interrupted the barrage, saying, "Look, you don't have to shout at us." Kerrey stared back at her. "This...