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...charge between $40 and $120 per thousand names, a premium over the cost of lists of the general public...
...gave you the Internet; I can take it away"), a gag the Modern Humorist, a website, claims Gore lifted. But the payoff for Gore came when David Letterman joked that the show was actually a fund raiser and that Gore would be out in the audience "to collect your thousand dollars." The Buddhist temple just hasn't had the same sting since...
Online education includes everything from learning a foreign language to mastering investing to creating a Web page. Courses can be free or cost up to several thousand dollars. Students typically log on from a home computer to receive lecture notes, suggested readings and critiques of their work, and to turn in assignments and participate in a chat-room or message-board discussion. More and more classes are being offered in real-time streaming media, meaning that students log on at a designated time and can see their instructor in live video on their computer...
...continue to subscribe to William F. Buckley Jr.'s famous dictum: "I would rather be governed by the first three million five hundred thousand codfish in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard University...
...young clergyman is described as having the face of "a sheep with a secret sorrow." Sociopolitical generalization? This is as close as Wodehouse gets: "Unlike the male codfish, which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons...