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...Um, I think I have," I typed in response. "You asked me where we should spend Thanksgiving." My mind was racing. When did she leave the room...
...Okay, let’s see…” My dormmate shuffled the cards and then scratched his head. “Um, first of all let’s learn what a hand...
Still, Fitzpatrick politely answered the question. “Um, well, I think we were a little more conservative in the second and third quarters,” he said...
...temperate on the ideological thermometer. (Psst! We also thought, and still think, he's pretty dumb--though you're not supposed to say it and we usually don't. And we thought that this too would make him easier to swallow.) It turns out, though, that Bush's, um, unreflectiveness shores up his ideological backbone. An adviser who persuades Bush to adopt Policy X does not have to be worried that our President will keep turning it over in his mind, monitoring its progress, reading and thinking about the complaints of its critics, perhaps even re-examining...
...building only,” says José, an engineer. Jimmy, a tall, hearty man in a blue windbreaker and his family have come all the way from Colorado. Have they heard about the statue’s dirty secret? “Don’t they, um, defecate on it?” his wife Cheryl offers timidly...