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Byrne has gotten a big jump in his collegiate baseball career and the experience he has gained has been invaluable...
...It’s hilarious. It’s been a lot of fun,” said Mathews of his legal ordeal. “We’ve done these things all around the world and never gotten arrested...
...concentrating in History and Literature, where theses are de rigeur, my tutor and I have been discussing potential thesis topics. Although many of my classmates have submitted thesis-research grant applications in which they use the word “agency” a lot, I have only gotten as far as free-associating about nineteenth-century machine breakers...
...Clinton wanted to kill bin Laden and that the CIA balked over the slightest ambiguities in his orders: "Some of the people who had to carry that out were part of an agency that had been accused of assassinations in Central America not too long before and who had gotten in deep trouble for that," says Kean. "What [they] wanted [was] all the t's crossed and all the i's dotted...
...would reflect better on mainstream society to say that this change has occurred because popular culture has grown more forgiving of professional mistakes and personal miscalculations. In truth, however, the change has arisen primarily because Americans have gotten savvier, and perhaps more sadistic, in watching others pursue fame and success. The public has learned that failure can be highly entertaining and, occasionally, quite funny. Comebacks can be inspiring, sure, but they’re even more fun to watch—and therefore more profitable to facilitate—when they’re creatively bizarre and shamelessly attention-seeking...