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...occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary last week, she did strike a surprising note of intimacy. Talking at one point about the need to be sensitive to the public's will, she said, "I have done my best, with Prince Philip's constant love and help, to interpret it correctly..." There it was--the word love. Yes, she had tucked it away in a parenthetical phrase, but no one could remember the Queen's ever using it in a personal context. Will it now replace "duty" in her lexicon...
...initially planned the vote without a clear way to interpret the results, but the new ballot will give HDS a clearer mandate...
...Shrier comments, "So what? I don't know! You're the professor; you tell me so what!" Davis has also experienced the "So What" Phenomenon. His Expos preceptor would write the inexplicable words "the so what factor" next to various random lines in the paper. "It's easy to interpret that as 'I don't care about your paper' rather than as 'Why is this important to your paper?'" Davis notes. "On one of my papers, she wrote, 'Good title' next to my title," he adds. "Then on the next line she wrote, 'Consider another title.' It didn't make...
Simmons fondly recalled the old election style, with parties and political debates spread out during a week-long vote tally, but said the new technology is a definite plus for Cambridge voters. However, she cautioned voters who might interpret election-night vote tallies as final results...
...News even went so far as to say that Carolyn was full in figure and glowing, which columnists George Rush and Joanna Molloy interpret as possible signs of pregnancy...