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With two years' experience in the Ivy Leagueunder his belt--Tall spent the 1986 and 1987seasons in assistant coaching roles atCornell--Tall was no stranger to the unique roleof an Ivy coach...
Wolf's political consultant Kate Champion Murphy mistakenly left a message on a stranger's answering machine in which she said she was looking for liberal lawyers to criticize Galluccio's non-profit organization for an earlier paperwork glitch...
...button-down shirts advising some variation on "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." This is an impossible standard. No one knows the whole truth. (Omniscience is not a human attribute.) Moreover, humankind cannot bear "nothing but the truth." Meursault in Camus's The Stranger is incapable of lying and is executed for it. Prince Mishkin in Dostoevsky's The Idiot is a man of perfect honesty who brings disaster to everyone he meets. And in Liar, Liar, Jim Carrey, who has played a few idiots in his time, is even more insufferable as a truth teller...
...gothically dysfunctional. After Christopher's mother died of cancer at age 50, the widowed poet waited just two months before marrying a former student of his, almost 30 years his junior. In 1991 the local newspaper reported that she was caught injecting cocaine in an abandoned house with a stranger and given two year's probation for possession. The hunter-athlete-poet told his son he was afraid she might kill...
...what I wanted was finally enough for me to stop making the trip," he recalls. "What other business treats you like that?" Perversely, customers got so used to the abuse that it became easy not to give them what they wanted. "Managed dissatisfaction," Antioco called it. He is no stranger to making unhappy customers whole. Previously he cleaned up convenience-store retailer Circle K before moving on to run Taco Bell...