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...girls school, it is the philosophy that manifests itself in my unusual Valentine’s neutrality. Depending on someone else to determine your enjoyment of something is fruitless. Let’s be serious: Valentine’s Day has kind of screwed itself over. Paper cards, stale candy, and the cheapest flower that money can buy: it’s inherently kind of insulting to receive these things in earnest from someone you’re romantically involved with. But getting a Tonka truck Valentine from your best friend or a yellow carnation with “Please...
...Stale Doughnut Myth "Wall-to-wall Kennedy" [Jan. 22] acknowledged that giggles over John F. Kennedy's "supposed gaffe" "Ich bin ein Berliner!" may not be warranted. Only in western Germany is a jelly doughnut called a Berliner. Here in Berlin a jelly doughnut is a Pfannkuchen. So the ignorant West German journalists misunderstood, as did their American colleagues based in West Germany. The Berliners knew perfectly well Kennedy didn't say, "I am a Pfannkuchen!" but, as he also said, "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin." And they loved him for it. Chris McLarren...
...help these guys when they come home,” she said.The VA itself has been publicly skeptical of the new study, with one of their spokesmen stating to United Press International that the research appeared to be “misleading” and included “stale recommendations.” Bilmes herself was slow to take offense, recognizing that the VA has lately been under pressure from several quarters, including Congress and various other veterans’ organizations. But no matter how the issue is approached, she says, there is no escaping the fallout that...
...black foster child his social worker wife brings home to their swank Manhattan apartment. He expatiates about democracy and integrity, but bullies their housekeeper and routinely engages in extramarital affairs. Moreover, in recent years, even his literary work has fallen off. He begins to plagiarize himself and rehash stale clichés. But what matters most to him, albeit unconsciously, is maintaining his lofty public image. Essentially, he becomes a parody of himself, an actor in the part of Murray Thwaite...
...young ’uns; in this take on holiday lore, Santa, according to the Orphans’ website is “a man who, after hundreds of years of back breaking public service, has been driven to devour more than just a plate of stale cookies!” Check it out at the Machine Theater (normally a gay nightclub...