Word: hogged
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...straight, because it's 0400 and I've been at work for 20 hours straight, somehow missing dinner again in the process. And once again I haven't written to anyone. It starts all over again four hours later. It's not really like Ground Hog Day, it's more like a level from Dante's Inferno...
...prose, Franzen's ranking would be through the roof. He puts up Updikean numbers. His writer's eye picks out the "chevroned metal floor" of a merry-go-round, and a man with a ponytail "as thick as a pony's tail." A cheap space heater is "a wattage hog with a stertorous fan and a grinning orange mouth." The California towhee, one of his favorite birds, is like "a friend whose energy and optimism had escaped the confines of a single body to animate roadsides and backyards across thousands of square miles...
...there had been several near misses of the U.N. post, all falling within a 300-yard radius, according to an officer of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Then, at around 1:20 p.m. Tuesday, one aerial bomb exploded 300 yards away and the four observers went "ground hog" (UNIFIL's term for going to the bomb shelter). Soon after, according to the UNIFIL officer, UNIFIL contacted the Israeli military to warn them that one of their bombs had fallen close to a U.N. position. Over the next six hours, another 10 aerial bombs exploded between 100 yards...
...President Vicente Fox cannot run again.) And it highlights the issue driving this election--one that may have an impact on Americans as well as on the campesinos in Puebla. Mexico's economy is still in the clutches of Big Business barons, who often pay subsistence wages, hog bank credit and investment capital and choke financial oxygen from the medium-size and small businesses that employ two-thirds of Mexico's workers. Half of Mexico's 106 million people live in poverty, yet the country also has 10 billionaires. And economists say chronic disparity is contributing...
...sleep. The Detroit Pistons, 2004 champs and last year's runners-up, played rough, unselfish basketball, but they are more admired than beloved. And then there were those Los Angeles Lakers, three-peat winners from 2000-2002. First, they won too much - nobody likes a ball hog. Then, the whole Shaquille O'Neal/Kobe Bryant soap opera wore us out. Shaq says Kobe is selfish. Kobe says Shaq is fat. Let's watch Gilmore Girls instead...