Word: moans
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...small battle over the nature of the public library is raging in the imaginary cyber-war that grips our country. This war seems to be conducted mostly by middle-aged folks as you may have noticed. Most of our cohort could care less. Our parents, on the other hand, moan about it and fondle it from one moment to the next. Some beg us to embrace the Internet as a paradigm of civic virtue, while others see it as a conduit of sin, the high road to pornography and all manners of smut...
...another Valentine's Day has passed. Thank God and good riddance, you might moan. Even if those libidinous 24 hours dedicated to Eros didn't turn your stomach, chances are that you've had your fill of chalky candy hearts and prosaic declarations of amour a la Hallmark by now. The roses are wilting to papery brown. The only chocolates left in your Whitman Sampler are those revolting ones oozing phosphorescent cream fillings...
...luxury few other colleges offer, as well as finish before Christmas, we would have to start approximately three weeks before we do. That would have us beginning in the third week of August, cutting short internships and jobs that expect you to go through Labor Day. Further, many professors moan, starting before Labor Day would cut short their time on the Cape and at the Vineyard. However, starting in August, as most other Ivy-Leaguers do, seems a worthwhile tradeoff for finishing the semester before vacation, internships and the Vineyard notwithstanding. It would even be acceptable to shave four days...
...main Microsoft headquarters, which is 25 times as large and looks, when I finally see it, about the size of Minneapolis. Around 20,000 Microserfs work there. Some people call it the Hive. I yawn, feigning a lack of interest. The yawn might have sounded like a moan. I don't know...
...same strategy goes for the line-item veto. So what if it was part of the Contract with America? Clinton wants it. The Republicans can moan when he uses it and moan when he doesn't. At best, Clinton will have it for one appropriations cycle before the election, and he can use it to reject programs he will describe as extremist...