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...Sixty-one percent of all respondents felt regular spanking was an acceptable form of punishment. Even more surprising, thirty-seven percent of parents of young children believe it?s acceptable to spank children younger than two. And as a corollary befitting the old adage "spare the rod, spoil the child," fifty-six percent believe a 6-month old baby can be spoiled by too much attention...
...Rashad Bartholomew rushed for 201 yards and two touchdowns, leading the offensive attack. The game was over almost as soon as it began as Yale jumped out to a 21-0 halftime lead. Dayton did not have enough firepower to work its way back into contention and could not spoil Yale's party plans...
...Everybody was fine about everything. It was a convention in the spirit of Barney ("I love you. You love me..."). No one wanted to spoil this party. As Jerry Falwell put it, if delegates would only count their blessings--the platform, the selection of Cheney--and "keep their mouths shut until their guy was in the White House," the infidels would be vanquished. In fact, party activists, once bent on cutting school breakfasts and midnight basketball, actually applauded Powell--who actually wore a white shirt. He chastised those who "miss no opportunity to roundly and loudly condemn affirmative action that...
...Sydney, Thompson is a threat to spoil the party for the gold-hungry Australians because she combines technical perfection with an aggressively competitive psyche--either of which could provide a margin of victory in races that are often won by hundredths of a second. In the fly, her muscular shoulders power in and out of the water with such remarkable grace that Quick points out the obvious: "Watch Jenny's stroke. It's the best in the world...
...good sports; we don't want to spoil The Perfect Storm for the illiterati. But even the multiplex ignoscenti will get enough early clues to know that something wrong is in the wind. Gloucester gal (Diane Lane) to her sailor beau (Mark Wahlberg) before he boards the Andrea Gail: "Don't go, Bobby. I got a bad feelin'." Bobby: "Just one more time, I promise." This dialogue, familiar from a quillion melodramas, is always uttered by the sap about to step into the old dark house, the line of fire or the unforgiving sea. The Perfect Storm has more whispers...