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...already beaten the Grammys, the Golden Globes and the People's Choice Awards in the ratings so far this year. And with the Oscarcast dropping steadily in the ratings over the past few years (to a low of 33 million viewers in 2003, though last year it showed a slight uptick) and a lack of big box-office hits among this year's nominees, the stage seems set for another ratings fizzle...
...lies. I know, because I’m responsible for one of them: As of this writing, the year in which Yale University was founded according to the encyclopedia is not 1701 as it rightfully should be but 1702; I’ve committed my own personal one-year slight against the prestige of our younger sibling in New Haven...
...before they were swallowed by the waves. In the days after the tsunami, Buncha says, he had considered moving back home to the northeast of Thailand, as many of his friends did. But now, as each day brings the opening of a new business and each week sees a slight increase of tourists on the sand, he has decided to stay. "I have too, boss," he says with a smile. "How else will you get back to your hotel...
...With the numbers given to us at the time, we made the best estimates we could,” Mahan said. “But we’ll have to ask for a slight bump in the allocation...
...senior citizen, Barry walks with a slight limp, coughs frequently and looks thinner and MORE frail. He?s in the process of finalizing his fourth divorce. Gone is the kente cloth and other African garb from his previous comeback to politics, replaced by dark slacks, a derby hat and a gray beard. Besides his drug and alcohol addictions, which Barry won?t talk about except to say he attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, he also suffers from high blood pressure, diabetes and prostate cancer. ?I don?t have health problems, I have health issues,? he snaps. And he?s also tired...