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...acts, there is little continuity between the first half and the second half. Not only does Carol look different in the second act, she is different. The woman who pressed charges against John is not the same as the one who crept into his office sheepishly hoping to straighten out her grade. Apparently, women who press sexual harassment charges are chameleons constantly changing color. The second half of "Oleanna" is a non sequitur. It is impossible to comprehend how the first act resulted in the second...
...linesman flagged [somebody else] for offsides, which was impossible because the goal went straight in off of a shot," Marcotullio said. "Fortunately, the referee went over to him, and they had a conference to straighten...
...fumbling of the council has led concerned students (all three of them) to demand change, Change, CHANGE! University elders have even threatened to intervene to straighten the teetering student government. Suffice it to say that it's been an Excedrin year for the council...
Replacing dressing-for-success with dressing-for-sex is no leap forward. Men don't wear tight pants to get a promotion or a new client. By contrast, women lighten, heighten, straighten, curl, iron and bleach their hair. Unwanted hair is ripped out by its roots with hot wax, shaved, electrolyted and depilated. Bound feet may never have caught on here, but high heels that force the entire body weight to rest on the tip of the big toe are a cause of daily anguish...
...Engineers started off the 1993-94 campaign playing very inconsistent hockey (6-5 in their first 11 games), but they then went on a nine-game unbeaten streak to straighten things...