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...relationship between Uribe and Santos became strong enough that when Uribe asked Santos to be his running mate, Santos “seized the opportunity” on something of an emotional whim. “I think if [the decision] had been a totally rational one, I wouldn’t have gone into politics,” Santos says. “Here, to be a politician is very risky.” Indeed, only last week the two survived a bomb attack on their motorcade. “Though our lives are in danger at every second...
...perhaps self-evident to note that playing the piano is an entirely different proposition than, say, playing the violin. Whereas a violin fits snugly into a carrying case and is transportable at the owner’s whim, there is a whole profession dedicated just to transporting pianos—and it usually can’t be done without a couple of burly movers, a rolling contraption and some hefty dents in the soundboard. As a result, few college students truck their family-room spinets anywhere at all, let alone to their schools of choice. Their desire to continue...
STEVENS: And there’s more where that came from. If you don’t start paying whatever suits our whim, we’ll take civil disobedience to the next level: blocking little old ladies from crossing the street...
...Daniels, a blond-haired, bright-eyed Oklahoman, the prospect of going to Harvard was always more of a casual whim than a concrete goal. Though she enjoyed her visit, Daniels didn’t have her heart set on Harvard and in fact believed she would end up somewhere like Georgetown or UCLA...
...what about the rest of us? Is it really so very easy to track down drugs on a whim, just by opening a browser? In the interest of journalism, I set out to answer my own question, and found a very different world than what's described in the U.N. report. The U.N., of course, is a venerable institution with many resources, and I am just one small person - so perhaps it's not surprising that I could find no evidence of said hard-core Internet drug culture...