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...Bush Administration would still prefer that you head directly to the store - it's faster that way, and there are Republican political careers riding on this tax cut working out for the best. Stores would certainly prefer that you spend it with them - Wal-Mart, for one, is offering a rebate-check cashing service right on premises...
...chances of marrying again are roughly equal to the probability of my being taken hostage in a terrorist incident. O.K., I know that statistic has been debunked, but from where I sit, it still feels true. Ten years after my divorce, I'm beginning to think I might actually prefer being taken hostage to any more dating. "So," I'd say to Osama bin Laden, "you come here often...
...Wouldn't your old friend Larry Bossidy at Honeywell prefer that you not appeal, so he can get his company back on track...
...should prefer Philip Roth. Roth, like me, is a Jew from New Jersey who pens embarrassingly explicit sexual confessions. But his prose is not poetry. He is not breaking new ground. He is not Thomas Pynchon...
...pushed for a plea, getting support in swaying Attorney General John Ashcroft from such corners as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and CIA chief George Tenet and would clearly prefer the back-room route from here on out. For one thing, a trial would have forced prosecutors to put on the witness stand the FBI's prize source - a Russian who stole Hanssen's KGB file from Moscow Center, as Russian intelligence headquarters is known, and handed it over to the bureau. For another, the National Security Agency would have had to reveal highly classified details about its communications intercept capabilities...