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...history books, were generally lofty, unfeeling, pragmatic types who married not for sentimental reasons but to forge diplomatic alliances, consolidate material fortunes, and produce legitimate heirs. Prince Charles, by fathering children with Diana while carrying on with someone else, showed just such cold-bloodedness once, but then went soft. Now, like some pathetic commoner cruising the member profiles on Match.com for a soul-mate who enjoys bird-watching and Scrabble, he wants fulfillment, compatibility, partnership. The next thing we know, he'll be on Dr. Phil discussing the Seven Secrets of Lasting Intimacy...
...order to fund these initiatives, Kirby wrote, the administration will continue its “soft freeze” on hiring, fire staff members in “targeted areas,” and also likely participate in a major capital campaign...
...Niro’s caliber. It has clearly been good training playing against all those hunky-leading man types (Denzel Washington, Sean Penn, and soon Tom Cruise). De Niro, playing against the Travis Bickle-type that first catapulted him to fame, is very convincing as David, a soft-spoken psychologist...
...technology” existed. This infuriating person inevitably goes to get an ice cream cone moments before you do, and, despite having attended one of the nation’s finest institutions for at least a year or two, is absolutely mesmerized and befuddled by the operation of the soft serve machine. There are so many handles! Should I push it down or pull it up? Where exactly do I hold my cone/cup, and how do I twirl it in order to create a swirl? Never mind that this person has inevitably had countless meals and seen endless numbers...
...seriousness of the situation." There's no sign the I.R.A. is planning to return to war, but everyone involved in negotiations accepted the crisis could get worse. "These are very dangerous times," Martin Ferris, a former I.R.A. gunrunner who sits in the Irish parliament, told TIME. What makes a soft landing especially tricky is that Ahern has become fiercely critical of republicans. Ahern believes Sinn Fein duped him by saying the I.R.A. would retire when, he says, it knew the Belfast heist was being planned. Salvaging the negotiations could take months. For the people of Northern Ireland, the only good...