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...with me in Abercrombie,i Hopps says. iThey even went so far to ask me to bring in my teammates. I didnit do it though. I would have felt sleazy.i The Chicago branch of the Abercrombie conglomerate doesnit share Hoppsis inhibitions. A manager there went so far as to pluck a student right out of his dorm room...
...great thinkers into modern political debates with Procrustean zeal, Justice makes mere politics of political philosophy. Kant should be an end in himself. One should not, and does not, have to locate his thinking on our political spectrum to make him interesting. But students in Justice are required to pluck Kant from the clouds, fumble with him in their untutored hands and mold him to a present-day problem--like smashing a butterfly between one's fingers in order to admire its wings. Such familiarity breeds, if not contempt, at least a false and dangerous sense of intimacy...
...changed the name of its outlets to Boston Market). The hope is that the world's largest restaurant chain can corner the high end of the fast-food market, while allowing the upstart to benefit from a global marketing infrastructure. At the same time, if Micky D's can pluck the rotisserie chicken chain from Chapter 11, the public may be spared further "go healthy" experiments such as the Arch Deluxe and the McLean sandwich. On the flip side, Boston Chicken, which fell into a free fall when it added sandwiches and kids' meals in an attempt to keep...
...least the state of Miami was able to pluck a bit of triumph from what could have otherwise been just another bizarre chapter in Simpson's life after the murder trial. The two police officers that went to Prody's house after the 911 call were required to give Simpson a brochure on how to recognize and prevent domestic violence...
...call "the line of demarcation." It marks the division between my normal torso and my fur-coated lower body, like some sort of poorly conceived Greek mythical creature. I tried getting rid of some of my body hair once before, when I first started getting chest hairs and would pluck them out. I stopped not because of the pain but because my chest began to look like Manuel Noriega's face. A taut, muscular version of Noriega's face...