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MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Quack Science Middlesex University academics comparing the quacks made by ducks in London with those heard in the South West of Britain claimed the birds have regional accents. While the Cockney ducks' quack echoes a shout or a laugh, the researchers said, the call of their Cornish cousins resembles a giggle. Can duck devolution be far behind...
...times these explanatory passages will likely prove tedious for readers in-the-know. Thomas-Graham’s caricatures of Princeton socialites are priceless, but one wonders whether the author has adopted her subjects’ name-dropping tendencies. The acknowledgments at the beginning of the book include shout-outs to Jack Welch, the former General Electric CEO; Tina Brown, the celebrity journalist who edited The New Yorker; Vernon Jordan, a trusted adviser to President Clinton; and—of course—University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...Hames, urging. "Tell them we'll beat Yale." Haines refused to support him, but when the reporter questioned him further he agreed that he wouldn't say that the crew wouldn't beat Yale. When the questioner tried to pursue the subject further the coach let out a great shout and spun the wheel of the coaching launch around in great haste, so that the launch was gone in a twinkling without any more discussion of the crew situation...
...have spread like a nasty rash across the city from their original reserve in Theingyi Bazaar, a multistory firetrap of sex clubs run by Wa and ethnic-Chinese drug traffickers under the protection of Burmese military intelligence. Even the few positive changes seem, on closer inspection, not much to shout about. For example, Rangoon now boasts a dozen or so cybercaf?s, but they charge a dollar an hour?more than the average daily wage?and deny access to hundreds of sites deemed "inappropriate." Who surfs what is easy to plot, because Burma has only two Internet-service providers: one state...
...life that killed them?has earned Sonia a respect and affection in her adopted country that resonate far beyond politics or nationality. Priyanka's Indian businessman husband Robert Vadra describes it simply as "unconditional love." Watching the men and women who turn out in their hundreds of thousands to shout "Sonia Gandhi!" and to throw roses at her, it's hard to dispute that...