Word: endearments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tension. She writes to Esme, "I am resigned to the fact that you will like your father better than you like me. Hell, for a long time I liked him better than me and that was after living with him better part of a year, which doesn't exactly endear people to you as a rule (ask around)." Poor Cora, she alienates Ray with her cynical humor and is left to the less interesting two-thirds of Delusions...
...made fun of, read on. The few guidelines provided below came up after consulting students from Mexico and the Caribbean, among them Barbadian Timothy E. Codrington '95, Cochair of the Harvard Radcliffe Caribbean Club, and Dax P. Bayard '97, from the Virgin Islands. These suggestions, if followed closely, will endear you to the locals and make spring break a more enjoyable experience for everyone...
...himself seems to have inherited a remarkable collection of genes. "I was rather a weird little boy," he admits. A child prodigy in Tulsa, he could read, write, add and subtract before kindergarten, and was devouring college science books when he was eight -- skills, he says, that "did not endear me to the other schoolchildren of Oklahoma." He was also a stutterer, which made him a target of taunts. But that didn't bother him, he says, "because I considered everybody else in the world stupid...
...doesn't take status or awards to make Ted Drury a special athlete. His skills alone would command him a six-figure paycheck in the National Hockey League, but the abundant amounts of leadership, intelligence and modesty he possesses endear himself not only to pro scouts but his friends and teammates away from...
...Clinton? Obviously he must focus on deficit reduction, but there are easier steps he can take as well: The President should push Congress to pass a credible campaign reform law. Limits on spending, public funding, more restrictions on PACs--these steps would increase Perotians' faith in the system and endear them to Clinton until at least...