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...Nevertheless, my parents somehow made it through my childhood (and that of my considerably better-behaved younger brother) without dispensing a single spanking. They sent us to our rooms, sure, and grounded us or withdrew telephone privileges. But they never hit us. And even now my mother says that while she doesn?t see anything wrong with a quick swat when a kid really pushes the envelope, she just never thought of spanking as a way to deal with parent-child conflict. And most parents they knew felt pretty much the same...
...somehow reminds viewers that he went to Vietnam...
...Gore, the usual style points. He was overeager, pushy about getting in the last word, and definitely out-smirked the Texas governor. But he also came away, somehow, sounding like the man whose numbers just might be believed; that Bush's might just be the "fuzzy math" that Bush complained about. That should be an easy one for a wonk like Gore - it's not, because of Gore's troubled history with the truth - but Bush still lacks the veep's visible confidence when it comes to quoting the fine print...
...something tangible--a hard, shiny piece of black metal--that he had to forge and form so that it became usable, so that the hard black metal was transformed into a friendly tool, so that the 0s and 1s, the Windows API protocols and Unix server commands, were all somehow buffed and polished and worked to a fine, wonderful, simple application. That was his idea. And it was big and frightening and full of implications, and it filled him up, this 18-year-old college dropout sprawled on the floor in his uncle's office, in what used...
...board here if a photographer was positioned right, a lively judo tussle there (again, photographers were present), a rose in his buttonhole, a pretty woman on his arm, he knifed through dowdy Canadian politics like the classy skier he was - moving gracefully, radiating energy and freedom, yet somehow making all the gates...