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...homosexual at an ice cream parlor. "How do you know he was a homosexual?" asks Miguel. David replies, "They had chocolate, but he ordered straw-berry." Miguel tells David that Diego is a subversive and that it is David's patriotic duty to return to Diego and attempt to extract information from him. And so begins the friendship between David and Diego...
...system. "That's where I think the debate is going to be in the Congress," Perry said.Perry's remarks suggest that the GOP right won't get a huge Star Wars budget, but instead can expect token defense spending hikes, saysTIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. Expect the GOP to extract some concessions from Clinton in exchange for a scaled- down Star Wars program. "I think Star Wars spending is going to increase -- but I don't think it's going to be a big deal," Thompson says.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
Working to extract the maximum profit from each consumer is, after all, a time-honored way of doing business. But not a very cooperative...
...information on-demand" functionality of interactive media will also allow for a more informed populace. Granted, technology as it is today requires the user to be somewhat well-informed anyway, but as interfaces grow and society habituates to new media, the method--and the impulse--of Joe User to extract information from the Infobahn will become intuitive...
...Scout president. His Dr. Strangelove is the crazed head of the American weapons program, apparently because he considers it the closest modern equivalent to his beloved Third Reich. Strangelove holds the audience in thrall as he goes further over the top with every line, straining in his wheelchair to extract himself from the death grip of his own right hand, a powerful character actor in its own right. This is the classic Sellers--black leather glover a demonic twinkle in his eye, and a thick German accent that can't help rolling over the word "slaughter" with special relish...