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...married. Write on both sides of the page—single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack...
...Eventually, he did change. He did what Crosby, Como, Sinatra and Fisher had done before him: sing strong, sing pretty. Toward the end, he couldn't hack the rock material (his vocals on "Burning Love" and "Way Down" are thin, ragged, spindly), but he still had it as a balladeer. His spectacularly intense rendition of "I Believe," excerpted on the recent NBC special "Elvis Lives," proves that his inside the bloated body was the soul of a gospel-tinged Caruso. The under-the-balcony tenorizing of "It's Now or Never," the final detonation of pain and taunt...
...soft and fluffy, like the beard? Labor's 130,000 members voted overwhelmingly to find out. Many who supported Mitzna in the primary say they don't really know what kind of a man he is, but that anything's better than the man he defeated, party hack Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. And they don't expect Mitzna to lead them to victory in the elections, which are likely to show a wartime swing to the right. After 20 months in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's "national unity" coalition, Labor just wants a dovish alternative to the hard line. They...
...among the Prince of Wales' staff and tawdry tales about Diana. (Leaving Kensington Palace to meet her lover in just her jewels and fur - who knew she took fashion cues from the Velvet Underground?) The royals can't say they weren't warned. Walter Bagehot, the great 19th century hack, once said: "Above all things our royalty is to be reverenced, and if you begin to poke about it you cannot reverence it ... Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic." But it is not for the crime of ignoring such advice that the Palace...
Before the Vapir, herbal enthusiasts could rarely partake of the essence of plant without at least one cough, choke or hack marring the experience. By doing away with smoke and most of its carcinogens, the Vapir ensures those nettlesome signs of impending lung cancer won’t get in the way of a good time. In the words of the 19th-century novelist Victor Hugo, which appear on the very first page of the Vapir’s user’s manual, “There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world...