Word: guess
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...Tigers looked very good at Brown last weekend in a 31-28 loss and appear to have vastly improved since last year. The decision here is based on how many of those skill players the Crimson is likely to get back for this weekend’s game. The guess is that enough of them won’t return to allow Harvard to pull away with...
...They're a very, very vocal minority. The numbers of people that I hear from are so small, but the letters are incredibly mean. I'm "dumbing down the country." They really can't insult you enough. I guess there's a lot I don't understand about it. I don't think that any of those people would say, "Don't play with little Sarah next door; she's five, and she doesn't have her verb tenses down yet. No, no, no; wait until her grammar starts improving." But for some reason, if you put that same little...
...this little girl. And I'm not going to do "June B., CIA Agent." I'm not going to go outside of the boundaries of a normal little girl's life. I just try to stay with really common, ordinary themes, and when I run out of those, I guess-I don't know. I don't know what...
Hooray for Bill Gates, I guess. Hooray (long ago) for Marconi's gypsy cart, the telegraph. The transcontinental railroad was a marvelous new cart (though you get an argument on that from remnant buffalo and Sioux). The interstate highway system, brightest cultural blossom of the Eisenhower years, was a wonder. So were the electric carving knife, the fax machine and the splendid neckties and haircuts of the 1970s...
...allegedly received. It starts off jauntily enough with what Miss Manners likes about life on the Internet: "Cyberspace is like space on the open seas, free of some constraints that should be observed on land." Watch out, though. Already gentility is rearing its well-coiffed head: "No one can guess how old or rich or good-looking anyone is; people can be judged only by the way they represent themselves." Propriety above...