Word: grandpa
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That people can make each other nuts--and sometimes seriously, violently nuts--is not a new discovery. My grandmother knew it, and my grandpa too, which is why he kept his power tools in the basement. Still, scientific protocol demands that whenever doctors set out to repackage a perennial human sorrow as a modern, billable disease, they have to act as if they are on to something big. How else could chronic sleepiness have become Primary Hypersomnia...
...pitches with investment bankers, crossing the line dividing salespeople and bankers, which had been sacrosanct. By then star analysts were getting as much as 75% of their compensation from the banking side of the firm. One can well imagine they cared more about wooing banking clients than about putting Grandpa in a winning stock...
...script needs a rewrite, but he's already got a title: Dude, Where's My Nose? CHARLOTTE CHURCH Heavenly soprano wins Britain's Rear of the Year award. Parents everywhere dream, of course, of their daughter becoming Miss Ass ERIK LINDBERGH Flier replicates his grandpa's epic transatlantic flight. As a follow-up, he's planning to have his son kidnapped and then join the Nazi party Losers ENRIQUE IGLESIAS Singer booed for showing up late and lip-synching at a concert. For those keeping track, this is the "hubris" segment of Behind the Music ROBERT BLAKE Jailbird actor denied...
...blood skips a generation. Sage “had acquired from Grandpa (bad blood!) vanity, ambition and discontent along with literacy.” Yet though Sage is vain and selfish, she is also clever, shy and a book-lover. Interestingly, she never learns how to tell time but can translate Latin effortlessly...
...Rock are content to crow about what naughty boys they are. Hank III, in contrast, is quieter, more self-deprecating and ultimately more moving in his portrayal of bad behavior than most artists in any genre on the radio. That may not make him the towering figure his grandpa was, but it does make him a chip off the original block...