Word: normale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lebed: In a normal civilized society, you would have to force the army into politics with a stick. They should not be concerned with who is in power today, be it Czar, General Secretary or President. Presidents come and go, but the motherland always remains. We are not in a normal state. The Commonwealth of Independent States is, in fact, an alliance of abnormal states. That is why all this madness is going...
...This is not a company where someone goes off to work in the morning expecting any risk other than the normal risk of going to work," she said...
...wearing shorts. You pause and rub your eyes. Worried that your blood will freeze if you stand still for too long you head off towards your destination, muttering, "What the hell is he thinking? Is he from the depths of the Yukon, where this kind of weather would be normal for, say, mid-May?" Maybe he just likes being comfortable in overheated sections when everyone else is sweating to death. Or perhaps his parents simply forgot to tell him to bundle up before he went out to play in the snow...
...handful of shorts wearers must get cold, and some of them go as far as to admit that they do. Ed Park '96 considers wearing shorts a "virtuous activity, [but] one that risks certain things...like losing your legs." Others claim they simply do not get as cold as normal people. Several, times, shorts-clad Don Hayler '97 has offered his jacket to a friend. "They are just more cold than I am," he states. Mark Yokoyama '96, who wore shorts all the time until he bought a "really cool pair of pants," argues that his high body temperature allows...
...piece, in this case I persist. We are all strongly encouraged to wear clothes and to change them with some frequency. Even hockey players must shed those dreadfully unflattering costumes and don street clothes. It is natural for the rookie fashion fan to feel a bit uncomfortable, especially when normal "human" shoes seem so horribly flat and slow. But anyone can learn to embrace fashion, or at least press cheeks in the appropriate affected air kiss. After all, Couture, Shotongoal, it's all French...