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...cheerleaders. They may not be the best in the world, but they have their routines down before the morning of the game, they all come to (at the very least) every home football game, and it’s clear that they’re at the game to entertain the fans—not themselves. They don’t get academic credit either, but at least it looks like they take what they do seriously...
...whoever is dusting the mail is giving us a glimpse of the ugly scenario that neither Greenspan, nor any one else with a finger on any U.S. economic button is willing to entertain publicly - that diffuse, elusive threats like sporadic anthrax mailings, even if all of Daschle?s staffers are treated and cured, have the potential to turn the one-time economic shocks of Sept. 11 into a dampening, depressing drumbeat of diminished expectations...
Perhaps elite universities and richer countries tend to be more secular only because they can entertain illusions of total security and complacency that the rest of the world knows are delusional. Smart people aren’t being more rational or intelligent by adhering to atheism. They’ve just chosen one leap of faith over another. And yet many of us have not enough perspective on our own life nor objectivity in our thinking to acknowledge that, however you live, it makes more sense to work off of a tried model than make everything up for the first...
...four boys and girls sleep downstairs in sleeping bags, fully clothed. That's O.K.," says Gary, 56. But when Joel became sexually active, there was a tightening in the family rules, and Gary and Andi spelled them out with great specificity. No sleepovers with a girlfriend. Joel could entertain in his room behind closed doors--watch videos, listen to music--but at 10 p.m., the girlfriend had to go. No matter how liberal and open the Sherwins were, they did not, under any circumstances, want their son having sex under their roof when they were in the house...
...didn’t speak a word, Derrah’s ebullient gestures would be enough to entertain an audience. In addition to his movements, though, Derrah tells Fo’s story with the passion and commitment of a true believer in the power of comedy...