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...floating secondary school. He's the sort of father figure these chinless wonders have never had--stern but caring, and at one with the winds and the waves. Also, he seems to have the ability to tell them apart, a matter on which Todd Robinson's script--not to mention the casting director--is not very helpful. Sheldon's promise is that after a year of crewing with him, all the nonsense will be knocked out of them...
...foretell major moves in the Taipei stock exchange. Last week, when the Hong Kong press reported that Chinese Premier Li Peng would announce a timetable for reunification in a key speech, share prices tumbled 3.5%, and the Taiwan dollar took a beating. The next day, when Li made no mention of this schedule, prices rebounded on a wave of buying...
Giraldo's analysis of "Gate of Heavenly Peace" itself is lacking, as is his spelling ("premeried"). He also fails to mention Hinton's Harvard connection...
Alas. I've checked the Linguistics section of Courses of Instruction, and found not one mention of academese, professor-speak or anything of the like. Among my most troubling questions: What does it mean to "inform the question"? I didn't know questions were the kinds of things that get informed. "Hey, there's an emergency, inform the doctor." "Quick, there's an answer, inform the question." That just doesn't seem right. Who decided that every concept, idea and notion was going to be either "somewhat intuitive" or "rather counter-intuitive?" As far as I can tell, these...
...documents show the firm did some 60 hours of work on the Castle Grande land transaction that regulators say was a sham deal for the failed Madison Guaranty savings and loan at the center of the Whitewater controversy. In testimony before federal regulators two years ago, Hubbell did not mention that Rose lawyers, including Mrs. Clinton, had done work on the deal. Relying on evidence then available, federal regulators cleared the law firm of any conflict of interest. Wednesday, Hubbell acknowledged that he, like Mrs. Clinton, had in fact spoken frequently to his father-in-law Seth Ward, a Castle...