Word: mr
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...light-hearted White House conversation with representatives of Texas newspapers may have opened a new controversy for President George W. Bush. The President laughed when Knight-Ridder?s Ron Hutcheson asked for Mr. Bush?s "personal views" about the theory of "intelligent design", which religious activists advocate should be taught in U.S. schools as an alternative to theories of evolution. After joking that the reporter was "doing a fine job of dragging me back to the past," to his days as governor of Texas, Bush said: "Then, I said that, first of all, that decision should be made to local...
...truth, my strongest summer flings were established with my favorite novels. As for many other girls, the beautiful story of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy became idealized in my teenage heart. Emma became my heroine and Tess of the D’Urbervilles died along with my summer innocence. In my later teen years, a tiny part of me might have fallen for a young, autobiographical Bill Clinton...
...other book lover, though, will understand the intimate connection between the individual and the story. It was upsetting to recently read Harry Potter and find myself less enthralled by the magic of Hogwarts, but reassuring to discover of late that Mr. Darcy remains his charming self. If anyone understands the power books have over me, it is my father. He would return home from work on hot summer days to find me covered in blankets after having finished another epic. Thus, in one last effort to make me an athlete, my father bought me a book that fateful summer...
What flies the movie forward from its “made-for-TV” feel is the addition of “Kids in the Hall” veterans Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald. Foley, in particular, camps it up as Mr. Boy—the former “All-American Boy” and sidekick to Will’s parents...
...kilometers up the hill from Apia to the old plantation home of Vailima. It was here that the Scottish writer (1850-1894) - who blended boy's-own adventure with psychological insight and a sense of history in such tales as Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Body Snatchers - came to die. "Our place is in a deep cleft of Vaea Mountain, some 600 feet above the sea, embowered in forest, which is our strangling enemy, and which we combat with axes and dollars," he wrote to his friend Sidney Colvin at the British...