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FORMER SPEAKER of the Massachussets House of Representatives Thomas McGee did an odd thing last week. He voted against a proposal which limits the freedom of the press in the Statehouse, and also closes the political process to the public. Odd because McGee is a politician known for his closed door policies and backroom style of politics before his ouster from the speakership by current House Speaker George Keverian...
...would expect that the children of such a mother would be a bit odd, and they are. Two narcissists that resemble Adams House stereotypes play co-stars in their mother's little melodramas. Philip Resnik is the very portrait of the artist as a young snob, but Laurence Bouvard's irritatingly Shakespearean accent detracts from an otherwise solid performance...
Because of an odd new NCAA tiebreaker rule, each extra inning begins with a runner positioned at second base...
Speech errors, such as slips of the tongue and odd pauses, often reveal lying, Ekman says, but body language provides the richest lode of information because liars usually do not bother to conceal it. When he showed volunteers films of several nursing students, some of whom had been told to lie, those volunteers who saw only soundless, neck-down films of the students were able to identify the liars and truth tellers about 65% of the time. A control group that studied only the faces and heard the words of the nurses got 50% of the answers correct, no better...
Then they did something odd--they kicked up their legs and tripped each other...