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...game. The same is true of other European countries. For instance, we've come to count on France to be the sort of place where any transaction, from registering the name of a baby to checking out a volleyball, requires the approval of some sour time server who will straighten the carbons between eight copies of the appropriate form and begin his questioning with "Granmuzzer's maiden name?" I think it would be irresponsible for Lionel Jospin to transform French functionaries into cool guys who cut corners. Remember, we helped all these people out during the war. The least they...
...sentenced to death. Stafford-Smith has been working on Shareef's appeal ever since. "When I was a kid, I read about America's having the death penalty," he says. "I couldn't believe it. I was absolutely horrified. I thought I'd come over here and straighten out the colonies. I'm afraid I haven't done...
...resident of Bridgeport, the neighborhood where Clark's beating took place. "A lot of times it's about territory. If we fight with black guys, we're called racists. But that's not true. If you're from a different race and you show disrespect, we're going to straighten you out." Says Tommy's friend Kevin, 18, who is also white: "Half of them over there [blacks], they got better cars than we do. And they don't even have jobs. They got free rent, and their grocery bills paid. You know something? I don't have no pity...
...irony link; it was the Seattle band Pearl Jam that accused Ticketmaster of monopolizing rock-concert ticket sales. And it wasn't too long ago that Microsoft wiggled out of the antitrust docket at the Justice Department. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates knows whom to call to straighten this out. Ticketmaster is controlled by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft...
Sitting around a conference table in the den of the city's top brass, 17 teenagers were yakking about sneakers, CK perfume and how they were going to straighten out Boston's inner-city neighborhoods...