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...your kids—half get dad’s name, half get mom’s. Or condense the hyphenated names into some sort of acronym (in the second example above, Mary’s last name could be Elbo). Or flip a coin ‘fer crissakes.’ There’s no easy solution other than marrying a family member, but a solution has to be found. Just don’t saddle your young’uns with the same burdens. The future of standardized testing depends...
...everyone is so enthusiastic. Some economists say the law does not go far enough and that allowing potential immigrants to be evaluated by civil servants is a bad move. "The law will not create an environment where we can attract the high potential candidates," said Holger Schäfer, an economist at the Institute of German Economy in Cologne. "It's bureaucratic and doesn't have clear rules." The Christian Democrats initially blocked the law because of fears that increased immigration would open the country to terrorists. Schröder finally won agreement by accepting an opposition-backed measure...
...told me thay gave extra to footbal plaers at Harverd an i always was a skrub on the home team an was hert once an had to be stitched fer rupture uv tha brain. Never tha less that waz a lon tim ago an i am in shap agen to play. Dos Harved play Dartmuth any more. They usta when my old man wuz at Harverd...
...they’re not above “spanking” their guitars to get a giggle from the fans. AAF greet their audience with an amiable, if calculated, “everybody have a-gud-day today?” and later concedes, “thanks fer digging the mellow stuff, guys— it’s our favorite stuff.” Their lyrics are tortured in a vague, expendable sort of way (“Collisions hurt and abrasions bleed / It’s hard to deal when all you do is feel?...
...Russian novel, The Brothers Karamazov, say. Tear out four of every five pages. Go to a golf course in a gated community in Southern Florida, and read those pages. Alone, in a basement and out of the cold, I had a similar experience. The exhibit of Candida Hšfer's Photographs at the Rose Museum is stunning, but it is small, fragmentary, and out of place...