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...same philosophy guided her on the other two initiatives as well: when it came to deciding whether to ban dog racing, Kimball said, “Cruelty is usually a pretty good thing...
Then there’s that whole “idle” thing. Note the following situation: You work up the nerve to Gchat that certain someone. He never responds, but you breathe a sigh of relief when lo and behold, he goes idle. A few minutes later, your heart skips a beat when you see that he’s no longer idle. Yet, he never responds. A slap in the face? Hell...
...Well before the race was called in Obama’s favor, Republican students acknowledged that their presidential candidate was the underdog. Still, they held out hope earlier in the evening that the night would produce at least some victories for their party. “The other thing that we’re looking at is even if McCain loses, we’ll consider it a victory if we win in New Hampshire because both we and the Dems campaigned there,” Motley said. Ultimately, however, the Republican hopes were not fulfilled—both Obama...
...dominant that teams no longer throw in his direction. He did not have a single ball thrown against him in man-to-man coverage in four consecutive games last season. His intensity in the secondary parallels his intensity in the classroom.“There are so many great things to say about Andrew,” senior linebacker Glenn Doris says. “He’s been an inspiration for me in the sense that he’s an unbelievable student and does everything he can in the classroom, and when he crosses the river...
...probably come to get away from people like us, could not have been more friendly and engaged; we felt we could have talked burgers - and places and books - with him all day. But you expect that of a politician, whose livelihood depends on winning hearts. The more remarkable thing, we both felt, was that this sparkling stranger was so much like the kind of people we meet in Paris, in Hong Kong, in the Middle East: difficult to place and connected to everywhere. Like the air of his home island (not really Eastern or Western, but a vibrant mingling...