Word: primers
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...convirti? en su abogado principal en 1994. M?s tarde, Bush coloc? a Gonz?les en la corte suprema de Texas y cuando Bush lleg? a la presidencia, lo hizo abogado de la Casa Blanca. Este a?o el presidente lo nombr? fiscal general de la naci?n, convirti?ndolo as? en el primer hispano en ocupar ?se cargo...
...there are reasons other than charity to buy it. It combines playful tunes first recorded for grownups (Robyn Hitchcock's I Often Dream of Trains) with new originals and covers (among them a haunting, mandolin-laced My Favorite Things by Winnipeg band Nathan). It's a diverse hipster primer for your favorite alternatoddler...
Martin--no American test pilot should be allowed to look dissimilar to Roy Martin--unintentionally flatters his charge by asking him whether he was ever a fighter jock. Martin needs this information to guide his presentation. After all, one should never bore the experienced with a nuts-and-bolts primer. The visitor answers negatively, tugs a forelock and asks how fast the F-20 accelerates from zero to 60. (Two and one-half minutes after a cold start, the Tigershark is flying at 38,000 ft., 13 miles from its base, the plane's radar locked in on an intruder...
...Ribeiro wrote an apoplectic critique that caused such a furor last week that the government agreed to review its list. Ribeiro called the wonk who wrote the document "arrogant, cretinous and incompetent" but stopped short of calling the author a clown. (Had he done so, the government's vocabulary primer explains, "the professional who makes a living from making other people laugh might get offended.") When asked why the administration decided to suspend distribution of the document, Perly Cipriano, the tight-lipped Deputy Secretary for Human Rights, said, "Because of the criticism," and nothing more. --By Andrew Downie
...national agenda again. Yet no one is doing anything about the most dreaded levy of them all: the alternative minimum tax. You have probably heard about the AMT and may have to pay it soon enough if you aren't already doing so. Join the club. Here's a primer on the most reviled tax since the Boston Tea Party...