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Said followers include Duncan, a middle-aged sad sack who runs a Crowe website from the nothing English seaside town of Gooleness, where he lives with his "life partner" (he can't pull it together to marry her) Annie, who has, at best, a layperson's interest in Crowology--and in Duncan: "She and Duncan had ended up together because they were the last two people to be picked for a sports team, and she felt she was better at sports than that...
...response to a petition filed by Blaney, the English High Court sent this "direct message" to @blaneysblarney via Twitter: "You are hereby ordered by the High Court of Justice to read and comply with the following order." This was accompanied by a link to a web page containing the command to desist from the misleading tweeting. By clicking the link, the miscreant risks revealing his or her personal IP address, but Blaney realizes his shadowy opponent might not fall into this cunning trap. "I've watched enough [of the police TV drama] NCIS and all these kinds of programs...
...Visual and Environmental Studies concentrator and English secondary from Palo Alto, Calif., Shaker only recently joined the Polo Club, though she has long been a fan of riding horses...
...result is a community of editors that’s sharply divided. The New York Times insists on “health care.” Reuters, on the other hand, is an unapologetic convert to “healthcare.” The Oxford English Dictionary—notoriously slow to respond to common usage—lists it as two words. Dictionary.com—with its modern, online perspective—says one. (A search through The Crimson’s archive reveals both...
...consider it part of my job at The Crimson to bemoan the destruction of language. It’s tantalizingly easy to assume that the exquisite subtlety of English prose was destroyed by a population too unsophisticated to understand...