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...motivated by race, West declared primly, “Of course, I have not invoked this particular factor as an explanatory one”—then immediately added, “But at a certain point you say to yourself, Good God, if it quacks like a duck and it walks like a duck, there’s a very good chance that it is a duck, and so there could be actually some unconscious or conscious elements at work here, and I would leave that up to the soul of Summers himself.” At another...
...noodles glided down smoothly, dancing in a savory mixture of duck ragout and tomatoes. The duck was prepared as the best duck should be—it literally fell apart as we bit into it. The only disappointment on the menu was the rapini ($5), a side dish that resembled broccoli. We couldn’t be sure if the dish also tasted like broccoli, for an overzealous cook burnt it to the point where the taste of charcoal overshadowed any of the other flavors...
...still make only a few hundred thousand dollars per year, are being driven out of the business. Earlier this month, 600 doctors in Texas closed their offices for a day to protest this treatment, all the result of lawyers who know a well-insured doctor to be a sitting duck. Even if the claim against a doctor is specious, it can be cheaper for the medical insurance companies to settle quickly, rather than pay court expenses and risk losing a lawsuit—even doctors who have done nothing wrong are losing claims all the time...
...have every area of our lives settled,” Woodruff says. “You know, everyone’s got to leave here with the job, the signing bonus, the apartment, the five-year plan, the 10-year plan…Everyone wants to have every duck in a row. Religion may further people’s pursuit of ‘What am I going to believe? What is going to be the truth that guides my life...
...realize it was a freak accident,” Lopez said. “If I’m afraid of the ball, I will never be able to hit. I will duck out of the way instead of stepping into...