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...just a habit of mine," Hill says. "After coming out of the huddle to start the game, I don't really like to talk to anybody. While the national anthem's playing, that's my quiet time. I think of how I want the game to be run, just mentally prepare myself...
...industry. "Many people, but primarily students, have found a way to download free songs off the Internet, even though it's illegal," says Greenfeld. "The industry has not yet found an effective way to prevent it." Unless it does soon, a generation of kids will get out of the habit of buying...
...rice for their families. In the diary confiscated by police, Rounds chronicled excursions through Honduras, Mexico and Puerto Rico. "He wants long pants, and he's unfortunately not very pliable," he wrote about one boy. "Can I change his mind? Taught him to brush his teeth last night, a habit that I'm sure he won't make a lifetime commitment...
...that very palpable hit has remarkable similarities to the plot of No Bed for Bacon, a 1941 novel by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon. A spokesman for Miramax, the film's distributor, could only respond, "Nothing is truly original. Shakespeare borrowed and adapted plots himself." To borrow (a bad habit) from T.S. Eliot, "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal...
...Trilling would insist, his emphasis lingering on the first syllable. Of Hellman, Podhoretz finds surprisingly pleasant things to say--she was a wonderful cook, she was great company, "playful, mischievous, bitchy, earthy, and always up for a laugh." But her extraordinary lies (the "Julia" story, for example) and her habit of self-glorification--herself presented as saint and martyr in the memoirs An Unfinished Woman, Scoundrel Time and elsewhere--were to Podhoretz symptoms of corruption and dishonor. Podhoretz admired Arendt but eventually broke with her over her famous New Yorker articles on the Adolf Eichmann trial...