Word: hand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other hand, many tire of the twenty-four-hour analysis that dominates CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel and talk radio. We sometimes complain about the constant punditry, but sometimes we also take great solace in it, parroting the supposed wisdom of commentators to friends and family...
...think about. Two weeks ago, Sara Martin was chosen to be a graduation speaker for Columbine High, and she was struggling. She wanted to write about all the people she loved, in the choir and the Bible club and even the ones who turn left out of the right-hand lane in the parking...
Despite all the diversions, they were able to produce a truly impressive publication before eating pizza and spending the rest of the day with the business side. I, on the other hand, took a nap. Very soon, I realized, one of these girls could get my job. I'm guessing it'll be Walter's daughter...
...juries were to start awarding damages to cities, or to individual gunshot victims, extracting millions from gun manufacturers, or at least forcing them to mount expensive defenses in hundreds of suits, then it is possible that the N.R.A. and other defenders of the gun might abandon their cold-dead-hand absolutism and begin to compromise a little. At least one Brooklyn jury has already issued a warning: last February it ordered three gun companies to pay a young gunshot victim $500,000 after finding that they had engaged in the "negligent distribution" of their product...
DIED. WENCESLAO MORENO, better known as Senor Wences, 103, ventriloquist who created impish dummies out of his thumb and forefinger; in New York City. As a schoolboy in Spain, Moreno began using his hand as a puppet to amuse himself while in detention for answering for absent friends during homeroom roll call. On the '50s and '60s variety shows of Ed Sullivan, Milton Berle and Sid Caesar, among others, he delighted audiences with sweetly silly exchanges. The often cranky Pedro, a disembodied head in a box, usually answered Wences' inquiry as to whether he was "all right" with a casual...