Word: jay
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Pinker has little patience with critics, particularly Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, who accuses evolutionary psychologists in general (and presumably Pinker as well) of indulging a "penchant for narrow and often barren speculation" and "pure guesswork in the cocktail-party mode." Pinker has even less patience with those who would confuse an evolutionary explanation for how the human mind evolved with the idea that our fate is genetically predetermined. Genes, he says, "do not dictate what we should accept or how we should live...
...true Hollywood style, opposites attract and Marcy meets her match in Shawn (Jay Sanders) whom she at first suspects of bestiality (he's very affectionate with his dog). It's a meeting of working automaton in gray business attire and stiletto heels with a principled, home town, ex-journalist who "took the easy way out" to do the right thing...
...Promise Keepers gives moral legitimacy to men who wish to regain power," said Promise Keepers spokesperson Jay Coakly in a recent New York Times interview. "Men in general, and white men in particular, feel they haven't been treated fairly and they need to get together to make sure that won't happen in the future...
...Brady Anderson in center, Alex Rodriguez at short, Frank Thomas at first, Mike Piazza behind the plate, Jay Buhner in right, Ken Caminiti at third, Craig Biggio at second, Barry Bonds in left and Roger Clemens on the mound. Despite the presence of such stars, we lost our first six games--not counting a tie called for darkness. Actually, it was in an effort to lighten things up that the coaches decided to give our Little Leaguers the names of big leaguers with the corresponding positions, if not quite the talents...
...Number of Marv Albert jokes Jay Leno has told on the Tonight Show...