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...Inside the park, things are smaller, often concealed. "It's impossible to get landscapes from them," Edwards says. As if in confirmation, an elderly couple walk by, the man clutching a camera with lenses that would intimidate a sports photographer, his wife holding pen and note-book. "It grows on you," Edwards says, nodding toward the determined visitors. "To addiction stage. Find a flower you don't know and you won't go to bed until you've identified...
...stupid, drunk or angry, run around like a maniac and then get a laugh with the slightest flick of an eyebrow. He can be boorish and then deceptively sincere. He can be genuinely sweet and then appallingly offensive. Unlike Adam Sandler or Jim Carrey, Ferrell has more than one note to his comic style - and all the notes are genuine...
...hearing for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito last winter. Biden riffed about his dislike of Princeton, Alito's alma mater, one day, then donned a Princeton cap the next day and said he was okay with the school. More recently, on a trip to New Hampshire last month, he noted "you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent," while attempting to note the growing clout of Indian-Americans in his state...
...Dictionary "What's really important is not etymologically what it means, but the effect it has." And that is a constantly evolving standard. Witness the debate over who can and can't use the N-word. McKean says that the next print version of the Oxford American Dictionary will note that tar baby can have derogatory connotations. Which may help public figures avoid becoming ensnared by Br'er Fox more than a century after he set his little trap...
...there's a hopeful note to be found in the depressing pile of statistics, it's that Katrina's aftermath should yield lessons for mental health care providers dealing with a future disaster. "People will learn from us," says Townsend. "Because a disaster like this will occur again...