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Despite a first-place ECAC prediction, St. Lawrence has not been living up to expectations. With only two wins in their pockets, the Saints are currently in a three-game tail spin after suffering defeats at the hands of rival Clarkson and reigning national champion North Dakota...
...before reporters at his ranch today, trying to look presidential." The comics (Leno, Letterman, Comedy Central) have swarmed all over Gore and Bush, pointing and woofing at the forest of American flags arrayed behind non-presidents and non-vice presidents as they've appeared on television to wheedle and spin. The flag (reverenced as a sacred object during annual flag-burning-bill debates) turns into a cheesy stage prop for the drooling suitors...
...legal analysts do seems a bit bogus, what with all this abstruse section 2 and section 5 and section 15 business. More likely, we laymen will focus on who gets off the best zingers - our armchair analysis determined by our pre-existing beliefs - then let Rush or Chris Matthews spin it for us as usual. On the other hand, if anyone was grandstanding for the benefit of the Nielsen families here, as courtroom-camera critics maintain, they were doing a lousy job of it. (With the possible exception of Laurence Tribe, who sounded well-stocked with Gore camp sports metaphors...
...least Mr. Sorkin should keep them in mind when he starts thinking spin-off. Chances are, a couple potential consulting producers will be retiring as soon as we sort out the next president. And I'll bet NBC pays a good bit better than the federal government...
...previous experiment, the spin, color, and line spacing of the patches changed smoothly. But in this experiment, the researchers occasionally inserted simultaneous jumps in the gradients of all the characteristics and asked the subjects to keep track of these discontinuities...