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Grandma warned about "living in sin." Ladies in her day had to be delicate about such matters, but with a voice full of foreboding she'd offer these words to the wise: "He's never going to buy the cow if he can get the milk for free." The cow, of course, was the one-carat rock, the white picket fence, the happily ever after...
...nothing new? This charming book, first published anonymously in 1928 by English writer Doris Langley Moore, is proof--if any were needed--that the man-catching strategy expounded by the 1996 best seller The Rules was old hat, and dumbed down at that. Written as a Socratic dialogue between wise Cypria and eager Saccharissa, Moore's handbook advises women to employ all the usual tricks: let the man make the moves, let him imagine he is smarter--and remember that, as Saccharissa says wistfully, "the thing which is against my own inclination is always the correct thing to do." Running...
...University; both schools shifted from shopping to pre-registration systems while she was there. Today, she welcomes shopping period reform. "With pre-registration, you don't have to end up taking the course you signed up for in advance," she adds. "There isn't a lot of change number-wise. The names may change, but the number of bodies stays about constant." Pellegrini suggests that pre-registration "would appeal to a great many Faculty." She acknowledges were she a student, she might not be as enthusiastic about dropping shopping...
...nominated him to continue as the party's leader. Dodd, now one of Daschle's close confidants, marvels at his old rival's political skills. "I would have lost it long ago," he says, noting the patience Daschle displays in dealing with his verbose colleagues. "The caucus made a wise decision by its margin of one vote...
...life. It is more often the genetic mishaps that enable us to see beyond functionality to a different essence of human value. We need to be patient because the growth rate of knowledge far outstrips our comprehension. It is only with the grace of understanding that we can make wise judgments about the use of knowledge. KEN WHELAN San Francisco...