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...sum, what bothered me about the meeting-turned-spectacle was that I felt like the (presumably heterosexual) council candidates were speaking less to the people in the audience than to their own preconceived notions of what gay people are and what they want...
...course that outlay seems insignificant compared with $4 billion in coal revenues, but whether even so princely a sum is a fair price for Utah's mineral riches is uncertain. The developer that was closest to signing a mining agreement before Clinton's announcement--and the one with whom Utahns still want to cut a deal--is the Andalex mining company. Recently, though, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and other environmental groups have publicized the fact that Andalex is based in the Netherlands. The net profits from any dig--beyond the $4 billion--would thus not even remain...
Shaw said affirmative action programs can be both positive and negative, and that the difference lies in their implementation. He described society as a "zero-sum game" and asserted that there is a large degree of competition between blacks and poor whites for jobs in a troubled economy...
...acting in "Star Wars" will never make the movie stick in anybody's memory. Aside from the usual polish with which Guinness coats his role of the elder Kenobi, both the performances of the cast and the cast itself add up to a forgettable sum. Many of the actors' names appear in a film's credits for the first time or one of the first times as the "Star Wars" cast is ticked off: Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill. Admittedly, the quality of many of the characters imposes severe restrictions on the range of the dramatic possibilities available...
...dreaded that particular question partly because I hadn't been able to think of a convincing answer beyond pointing out that Random House had paid a lot more than the Star and in a capitalist society a large sum of money brings a certain amount of respect, even if it is spent on a book that turns out to be a turkey...