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...aged tips on how they can avoid being conned. Most of the advice seems rather elementary: Don't deal with anyone who demands that a certified check be put in the mail immediately; insist that dubious propositions be put in writing; above all, just hang up on an overly unctuous phone caller. For those who cannot bring themselves to be so rude, Somers has a softer tip: Ask the caller to hold on because someone is ringing the doorbell--and then walk away for a good long time...
...marine food chain, immunologists and physiologists are attempting to understand the animals' biochemistry. The idea that sharks can actually be beneficial to human health was established decades ago: vitamin A came primarily from shark-liver oil until 1947, when it was first synthesized in the laboratory. The unctuous liquid is also, for reasons still unknown, highly effective in shrinking human hemorrhoids...
...bohemian poet, Baal (Daniel Sussner '00), is an enormously charismatic man who desires to eat, fuck, experience and be everything, ultimately even death itself. He is forever yearning for the infinite "purple sky" and the "dark river" as he hurls himself through life. He despises the world of unctuous critics and bourgeois manners as he romanticizes the raw lower classes, but he eventually spews out both...
...petty criminals use the same buzzphrases these days, they probably get them from TV, like everyone else. One week on Friends, when David Schwimmer's all-thumbs buddies offered to baby-sit his infant son, he said, "I don't think so"; an hour later, Jerry Seinfeld told an unctuous magician who asked to borrow him for a trick, "I don't think...
...have other conservatives who have appeared at Forum events. When Ralph Reed spoke on Oct. 30, he could not have received a warmer introduction from Mark Merritt, a former Republican National Committee chieftain who runs an Institute of Politics (IOP) study group this semester. This demagogue Reed, whose unctuous invective against "moral decay" was the embodiment of religious hypocrisy, whose appropriation of the Kennedys' rhetoric served only to undermine their name and that of the school, was welcomed by the K-School establishment in order to promote (over C-SPAN) its spanking new conservative image. Forum director Campion comments...