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...malaprops and mangled syntax have given the late-night comedians as much material as Bill Clinton's sex life once did. But what's most revealing--and what drives people into one corner or the other--is the words he doesn't stumble over. Dead or alive. Bring 'em on. And then there's the phrase that comes up so often in his public pronouncements, the one that some hear as a measure of confidence and others as one of smug disdain: "I expect." He expects the Congress to act, he expects the U.N. to show some backbone, he expects...
...strict no-tights clause in my contract. If I wore 'em, they'd have to get me implants in certain areas. They didn't go for the expense, so they put me in a camel-hair coat and covered everything...
...realized they might light up if only they were in the right seats. A frantic bidding war arose for those seats, stoking a commotion that the captain finally quelled by rescinding his order and declaring this a nonsmoking flight. If Klein had been captain, you could've smoked 'em if you had 'em. He calls the airlines' no-smoking rule "a sign of the dangerous lengths to which antismoking impulses will go to deny others the freedom to enjoy the consolation and mastery cigarettes provide in moments of stress or fear. Many people who do not normally smoke take...
...also a Crimson editor. “You know, ‘they’ve got this baby Natalie, and they don’t care about baby Natalie’s mom at all. Republicans care about life until birth, and after birth, screw ‘em.’ We don’t want ourselves to be presented as though that’s what we are. The woman is at least half of every abortion...
...black hole of misery. Stephanie L. Wilka ’05, a psychology concentrator in Lowell House, oozes school spirit—so much that she joined the College cheerleading squad her freshman year. “I think situations are what you make of ‘em,” she wrote in an e-mail message. “Ya gotta know when to work, and ya gotta know when to enjoy yourself...