Word: exaction
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...Vegas. I'm in Connecticut--heading toward Uncasville, home of the Mohegan Tribal Nation, to be exact. The pale halo I see is the reflection of my own headlights in the enveloping fog. It is 12:45 a.m. on Sunday morning. I have been driving since 10:30 p.m. Saturday. I turn off of I-95, onto Route 2A, southeastern Connecticut's very own boulevard of broken dreams, and then onto Mohegan Sun Boulevard, pipeline to the gaming phenomenon known as Mohegan Sun. After three tries driving up and down the strip, I finally find where I should...
Lots of politicians before McCain have tried to stir up the electorate with calls to duty and sacrifice, but they didn't have quite the same example to go with it. With McCain, the exact nature of this duty is left to the imagination, and that is one reason so many different folks are drawn to his campaign. It is why veterans break down in tears at his book signings. It is why some independents who stopped caring about politics a long time ago are suddenly reading and watching all they can about the primary contest. It is why those...
...Fozis one exciting quality: obscene quantities of iBeast,i or to everyone not living in Leverett G-53, Milwaukeeis Best beer. Milwaukeeis Best Ice, to be exact. According to his roommates, whom he calls ihis associates,i the Foz carried six thirty-packs of iBeasti from the convenience store all the way back to their room. The anecdote causes his roommate Chris B. Bala e01 to exclaim iHeis a single happenini dude. But heis still all business. Heis alllll bidness...
Ironic, isn't it? The same man who received an avalanche of requests to say "I do" allegedly threatened another woman for her unwillingness to say the exact same words...
Neurologists are still baffled by how sleep operates within the body, or even what its exact function...