Word: reverts
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Weeks ago, when I wrote that I'd changed my mind, an irritatingly shrewd reader e-mailed me (I'm quoting from memory): "You have come to the right conclusion for the wrong reasons, and because of that, you will one day revert to your old, erroneous view...
...dying of cancer. As it turns out, his wife's cancer wasn't diagnosed until years after the bombing. Once, former attorney general Baxley got to question Cherry in a room in Texas. "He jumped up and was going to beat me up," Baxley recalls. "You knew he'd revert to his bully-boy ways." But knowing he could face extradition to Alabama, Cherry backed down. He has other defenses. In 1965, when asked about his involvement, he replied, "That's when the Fifth Amendment will come in handy...
...date Democrats, do I have to marry one? Or can I do as Republican men supposedly do, and later revert to the right-thinking kind . . .? Hmmm. That’s putting the wedding before the first date. To quote Professor Robert Kirshner, “just for fun,” let’s start from “first sight...
...document that would withdraw it. "If Elian personally withdraws his request, the case would collapse," says Cohen. "But a court might order that the boy be examined by a neutral third party, and if that examination found that he actually wanted to stay in the U.S., the issue would revert to a question of whether a six-year-old can claim asylum against his surviving parent's wishes...
...Levitan acknowledged that the conversations about the aged building could lead to a big change for the club--he even hinted at the possibility of a University takeover of the building. "If the ownership of the building were to revert to Harvard, FAS would use it to accommodate student groups' needs," he described as the ideal relationship between the two bodies. Though the Pudding's lease won't run out for another 85 years, the University's vast resources could allow it to gain control much sooner...