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...Natalies are most bothered by sneaky devotees desperately hoping to glean information through questions such as, "Which high school did you go to?" or "What is your concentration?"--simply hoping to discern Portman's address without directly saying the P-word. Others pretend to be prefrosh with eager questions about attending Harvard or some clever lovers "mistakenly" chose Portman as a random e-mail confidante...
When I found out what was going on when Phills died, my sympathy meter dropped, at least temporarily. His friends now say that driving fast was one of his vices, something that was part of him. So it's silly to pretend that Phills was perfect, as so many of the early reports made him seem. No one is perfect, and it sometimes seems that athletes are especially...
...help them keep the promise? By letting them do some of the cooking, say experts. If you didn't give one for the holidays, children's cookbooks still abound in stores. Popular titles include Kids' First Cookbook (from the American Cancer Society), Cooking with Kids for Dummies, Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes and Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes. Mix in some adult supervision, and have...
...Dukakis put on the helmet, which fit him like a kettledrum, and climbed into the tank for a photo op. Gore didn't know the words but tried to fake it, and that was the least of his problems. You wanted to run up and tell him: Don't pretend this is the least bit comfortable for you. It only makes it worse...
...offensive song. The chorus actually reads: "What a girl wants, what a girl needs/Whatever makes me happy and sets you free... Whatever keeps me in your arms/I wanna thank you for giving me time to breathe." There's some complexity there, right? (Bear with me. Just pretend there's some complexity.) But the video seems to be playing to a whole new set of lyrics. The plot? Christina and her posse strut into a room full of drooling guys, one of which is presumably her boyfriend. I say that he might be her boyfriend because when she walks...