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...column, Dowd described a man who confessed to being too intimidated by her to ask her out, and blamed the dearth of childbearing career women on men’s insecurity. “Men veer away from ‘challenging’ women because they have an atavistic desire to be the superior force in a relationship,” she concluded...
...notes that political figures speaking at the forum often veer from controversial topics to talk about political involvement in general...
...arguments with fellow New Yorkers about just how afraid folks should be of new terror attacks, rollicking debates that inevitably veer into territory totally foreign to us (although we never want to acknowledge that, lest we lose the argument). We take soundbites from 60 Minutes, the New York Times Magazine—hell, Dateline NBC—and toss them around with a seeming familiarity more appropriate to third-grade history. It’s not that hard to sneak a nuclear bomb into Newark, we say. Sure it is, they’ve been improving port security ever since...
...undisputed champion of Salt Lake City would be Japanese moguls skier Teppei Noda. On his big day last week, Noda wiped out on his first jump, losing a ski. Displaying plenty of gaman, Noda sidestepped back up the hill, strapped back in and continued his run?only to veer wildly off across the mountain. Finding his way back to the piste, he resumed once more. Needless to say, he didn't make the cut. It was an apt encapsulation of Asia's performance: doing nothing right, over and over. True, tiny dynamo Hiroyasu Shimizu won silver...
...long "spacer," a metal part that helps keep in alignment the four wheels on one of the Concorde's landing gear, was left off the Air France plane. This mistake very likely hindered the speed of the plane as it rolled down the runway and caused it to veer severely to its left, striking a runway light. Critics argue that debris from this light disrupted engine No. 1, causing it to lose thrust...