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Finale Desserterie & Bakery had not seen an increase in sales as of 6:45 p.m. last night, according to general manager Tom J. Whalen, but he said he had not given up hope for the evening...
...don’t often approach these things with high hopes.” Referring again to the tendency authors, including herself, have to fixedly retain their certain style of prose, she says, “I think that one can compare the essays that people wrote with their general writing and see a correlation…If they published in academic publications in a certain style, they probably carried that over...
...When a general reader like yourself can’t understand something the fault is generally not in you but in the poor thinking [of the author],” she explains...
...some other special guests here I just want to acknowledge very briefly. First of all, my great friend and a champion of science and technology here in the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts, my friend Deval Patrick is here. (Applause.) Our Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray is here. (Applause.) Attorney General Martha Coakley is here. (Applause.) Auditor of the Commonwealth, Joe DeNucci is here. (Applause.) The Mayor of the great City of Cambridge, Denise Simmons is in the house. (Applause.) The Mayor of Boston, Tom Menino, is not here, but he met me at the airport and he is doing great...
...billion a year waging war in Afghanistan, and, depending on whose estimates you trust, a surge would cost between $10 and $40 billion all by itself. In 2008, there were 32,000 troops deployed in Afghanistan; now there are around 68,000. A troop surge on the scale that General Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, is asking for would push us past the 100,000 mark in a war that has been going on for longer than America fought in the Civil War and World War II combined...