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...Hewitt '87 of Cabot House, simply prefer their chow to be prepared differently. Hewitt says she resents the resemblance of skincredibles to a sort of main-course french fry. "I think the potatoes should be baked, and I want them to be filled with steamed vegetables," she says. "I lust after steamed vegetables...
...forgive and reform our problem children, but all too often this humane tenet of civilization is over-whelmed by the inhumane clamour for violent reprisal. Regretably, Meese and others have opted for the pessmistic, medieval alternative, and the immediate gratification of the lust for retribution will be the unjustifiable execution of 31 more death-row inmates who were convicted while they were still children in the eyes...
Booze, broads and bribes--what 19th century Congressional Correspondent Edward Winslow Martin called "the levers of lust"--are no longer the tools of the trade. This is not to say, however, that lobbyists have stopped wining and dining Congressman and their staffs. Public records indicate that Ways and Means Chairman Rostenkowski spends about as much time playing golf as the guest of lobbyists at posh resorts as he does holding hearings in Washington...
...story. Just when we've arrived at the brink of despair, all losses are restored and all sorrows end. Eliot and Lee's affair ends; Mickey recoils from the thought of suicide and rebounds exuberantly; and the three sisters settle down to happy marriages. People learn to distinguish between lust, which is momentary, and love, which is something stronger and longer lasting. They understand that the self-centered life is a dead end. And they realize that in this world, since a whole life is impossible, they might as well settle for a half...
Suspense comes with the underhanded, dastardly intrigues of Lord Guilford's father, the historically in famous Duke of Northumberland. The controlling force behind the during the latter portion of Edward VI's reign, it was Northumberland's lust for power that prompted him to arrange the marriage between his rather impish Beau-Brummel-of-a-son and the potential inheritress Jane, then fourth in line for the throne...