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...LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor) Precious Ramotswe runs a female detective agency in Botswana with cunning, charm and a how-to manual...
...more than one occasion, he offered a comprehensive “mega-motion” to resolve several concerns at once, bending parliamentary procedure but saving precious minutes...
...neither of these unfortunate calamities were, properly speaking, Davis’ doing. As much as Dartboard would delight in bashing the helmet-haired weasel, Dartboard has to conclude that there is precious little a governor can do about inter-state price manipulation by large energy firms, let alone about a nation-wide economic slump, which has cut into state revenues across the country. (And no, Mr. President, this does not let you off the hook for your genuine economic mismanagement. The federal government is in a much better position to stimulate the economy, and Dartboard does not look kindly...
...discovered a whole new face of humanity for which material goods were as essential as, if not more so than, nature’s gifts of sunshine and trees. Dartboard was singled out for his lack of a cellular telephone almost immediately and did not fully benefit from the precious carefree days of Freshman Week, most of which were spent exchanging phone numbers and storing them in the devices’ mighty memory chips...
...Even if Romney’s initiative never leads to a regrettable policy change, it will divert precious time and resources from the state’s more important business: creating jobs, improving public education and resolving the budget crisis. Romney would do better to turn his attention toward more pressing concerns and to realize that death is neither a practical nor moral punishment...