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...them is bad tempered; another is terminally diffident; two are burdened with awful parents--one permanently angry, another alcoholic. The minister is losing touch with God, and frankly, the Italian woman really ought to be studying Danish so that she can articulate her unlikely ardor for the shy tutor in his native language...
...This year Americans will do well in the Peripherals, so maybe we will pay more attention, and we ought to: they are among the great glories of the Games. Figure skaters? Synchronized swimmers on a frozen pool. Freestyle skiers? Hip-hop show-offs. Snowboarders are worse...
...clannish and adopting holier-than-thou attitudes. The speech has become a watershed in Utah, a focus of debate over the church's future. Hinckley, whose smiling bonhomie floats over such controversy, told Time in an interview in his office, "I am an open individual. I think we all ought to be that way-but it is all a process; it doesn't happen in a day." Since becoming president in 1995, the media-savvy Hinckley has been trying to gently nudge the LDS church to be more open. It has not been easy. Even recent proposals to supply condoms...
With fish and pads flying in all directions, the game ought to at least be entertaining...
...long been a tenet of pro-business Republicanism that no one ought to be making that decision for them. Which is why George W. Bush, unfurling Friday his proposed changes in the nation's 401(k) laws that will supposedly prevent Enron from ever happening again (and Bush from paying any more for it politically), did not propose that employees be limited in how much of their company's stock they can hold in their account. (What if it happens to a good investment?) It's also why the things Bush is proposing are, to put it mildly, rather mild...