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First, the bad news: the bar itself is unimpressive--even uncomfortable. Drinks are expensive (prices vary depending on the act), and they do not serve any beers on tap. Most of the patrons squeeze, strain, and sweat in the tiny space between the tables and the bar to get some elbow room and a good view of the band. The band plays at the end of this narrow corridor as people push past them to use the bathroom...
Cops in Blue Earth County, Minn., like those in many other places, carry laptops that enable them to tap into a statewide database and find out if a driver they've stopped for a traffic violation has any arrest warrants outstanding. The officers make 10 to 12 arrests a week, vs. two or three in pre-laptop days. That might count as measurable productivity, but how to quantify the benefit to society of haling lawbreakers into court rather than letting them roam free...
...layer upon layer of meaning, drowning the story line in seductive word play which, amazingly, is able to lead the reader's attention away from the moral issues underlying the book. "Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth," Humbert says by way of indroduction in the book, providing us with a glimpse of the verbal gymnastics that are to come. In the end, Nabokov's novel is largely about the power of language to transform a fundamentally disturbing situation into an exquisite work...
...wore a black Atlanta Falcons jacket, a light straw hat, and clenched the stub of said cigar in his teeth. A curious crowd of locals, tourists and onlookers gathered round the well-worn chess board in silence. Hands moved lighting-fast to place pieces and then tap down the time clock...
...different, but that's the whole point of the special concentration--to have an interdisciplinary look at health care," Ackerly says. "There are so many resources here that it would be a shame not to tap into them at the undergraduate level...