Word: usual
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Things are okay now. We talk about everything else, as usual. But we don’t talk about politics. It makes me sad, and I pledge to try to bridge the divide, but I’m no longer optimistic...
...you’re planning on going after 7 p.m. on a weekend, get a reservation, and remember: the 30-person party room goes the quickest. According to John Kim, a Boston University student and part-time employee, the 21-room complex draws a variety of karaoke enthusiasts. The usual crowd is a mixed bag of young Asian Americans and college students—hence the three hefty binders filled with Chinese, Japanese and English songs. Despite the studio’s no-drinking policy, beer bottles have magically appeared in the trash and probably have contributed to general enjoyment...
Both X-rays and an MRI came back negative, however, and the Ivies’ leading rusher took the field as usual...
...nice to see Depp, an actor who can do almost anything and who dares even more than he can do, radiate a demure if manly innocence instead of his usual piratical allure. Director Marc Forster can be lauded for executing a 180, from Monster's Ball to Tinker Bell. And there's a rooting interest in a film that portrays children as children rather than jaded sitcom brats and their adult friend as a generous, guileless soul rather than a sad and unsettling influence--a lost boy himself--like the pop-star resident of another Neverland who at 46 still...
...good news for Sox fans is that core "idiots" like Johnny Damon and Kevin Millar will be back. And as the rival Yankees try to avenge this year's loss, they may find it hard to snap up the usual big names. The Yankees are saddled with multiyear, multimillion-dollar deals for pitchers Kevin Brown and Javier Vazquez, two goats of the final league-championship game, and for first baseman Jason Giambi, who is a shell of what he once was. Of course, the Yankees' deep-pocketed owner, George Steinbrenner, can budget through those problems. And Houston's Carlos Beltran...