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...which provides a metaphor for relationships that's as apt (and unromantic) as they come. The excerpted passage notes that certain invertebrates "lose an arm while mating," and is immediately followed by a ghoulish bit of advice from The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette: "If you start to shake hands with someone who has lost an arm, shake his other hand...
...Georgia and South Carolina, learned last December how even a minor incident could affect her. Returning to her car one night, she found the window vent broken and the glove compartment rifled. Angry, she headed home. "I was on the interstate when it hit me. I started to shake as I considered what might have happened if I had come upon my thief. In my anger, what would I have done? And what, in his desperation, would he have done...
...meet signals the opening of the Harvard track squads outdoor seasons The men are hoping to add an outdoor Heptagonal trophy to the one they took this winter, while the women are aiming to shake off the injuries that plagued them all winter...
...contrast, herded cameramen out with a loud countdown of "five . . . four . . . three . . . two . . . one." Glitman turned to Karpov and said with a grin, "It's a good thing they didn't say 'blast off.' " At the same session, Kampelman gestured to photographers and said to Karpov, "Maybe we should shake hands," then leaned across the table to do so. Added Kampelman: "They're working people. We have to sympathize." Still, it was Karpov who got off the deftest line, one that went to the heart of the basic political question underlying all the ceremony. Asked by a reporter whether...
...same look in younger eyes." For perspective, he has several devices, but his most effective helper is the small, bespectacled clubhouse boy, Joey Moss, who has Down's syndrome. "I grew up around it," Gretzky says. "My dad's sister is mentally retarded. I love Joey, I love to shake his hand...