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...think, at that moment that my smug - oh, all right, liberal-minded - chuckles began to gag in my throat. Although other viewers of this film may find their laughter dying earlier, possibly when a home-schooled child is being instructed the earth is just 6,000 years old and that its warming is, like evolution, a myth perpetrated on the faithful by mad science. Or when Harry Potter and the gang at Hogwarts are talked about as the devil's disciple...
...during the five hours he spent pinned in the wreckage of his car, grievously injured and delirious with pain, Robert Hughes was visited by Death. "He was sitting at a desk, like a banker. He made no gesture, but he opened his mouth and I looked right down his throat, which distended [an error occurred while processing this directive] to become a tunnel: the bocca d'inferno of old Christian art." So Hughes begins his new memoir, Things I Didn't Know, quite literally with a bang. The accident took place in 1999 on a deserted road in Western Australia...
...field.” And Pier said that, while artificial turf abrasions can provide entry sites for infection, the surface is far from being a harbor for microbes. “In general MRSA likes to live in and on bodies. It likes moist surfaces like the nose, the throat, the skin. It doesn’t survive all that well on inanimate surfaces like artificial turf or dirt or grass...
...some were downright annoyed that they were expected to cheer for the contestants. “I didn’t want any of them to win,” groused Mihir Gupta ’10. “What incentive do I have to get a sore throat so that other people can get an iPod?” Strong words, but maybe this bitterness ties to the slightly manipulative nature of the dance-off. In fact, how do we even know that an iPod was given away? “I have pictures,” says...
That Bush would have an adviser as bare-knuckled as Frances Fragos Townsend, 44, isn't unusual, particularly for a portfolio as vital as counterterrorism. He detests it when aides waste his time clearing their throat before getting to the point, and he has always had an affinity for forceful women like Rice and communications guru Karen Hughes. Still, Townsend's rise to the President's inner circle is remarkable when you consider that she was a Justice Department confidante of Janet Reno's--which made her suspect among conservatives who still love to hate Bill Clinton's Attorney General...