Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down teams met this weekend at Northeastern, and, as one would expect, the up team beat the down team as the hosts defeated the Harvard women's basketball team, 61-42, on Saturday...
...share of them. He's sharper in evening appearances, at roughly the same time an NBA basketball game begins, by coincidence. He wowed Teamsters Local 238 at an evening chili feed in Cedar Rapids last week. But in the morning you half expect to see him sleepwalk into a room with the hanger still in his coat...
...library, describes the climate this way: "Columbine is a clean, good place except for those rejects," Todd says of Klebold and Harris and their friends. "Most kids didn't want them there. They were into witchcraft. They were into voodoo dolls. Sure, we teased them. But what do you expect with kids who come to school with weird hairdos and horns on their hats? It's not just jocks; the whole school's disgusted with them. They're a bunch of homos, grabbing each other's private parts. If you want to get rid of someone, usually you tease...
...elections. And the fight between the Kremlin and Fatherland is less for the Duma, or lower house of Parliament, than for position in the June 2000 presidential elections. The success of the Luzhkov-Primakov alliance in next weekend's vote will decide whether current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin can expect to coast into the presidency next June or will have to face a serious challenger. Luzhkov isn't running for the Duma next weekend, but in the peculiar world of Russian politics, he is vying, through Fatherland, for a shot at controlling Russia's future...
...good a job as anyone could in making Andrew a deeply sympathetic character. He receives excellent assistance from the well-cast supporting players, especially Neill and Davidtz. Bicentennial Man may not answer-or even seriously address--the moral questions it begs, but as long as you don't expect it to, you'll find it a worthwhile holiday movie...