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...aides more than ever with his verbose and minutiae-encrusted public statements. Advisers fret that in trying to appear smart, especially on matters of foreign policy, Clinton looks mired in niggling particulars. During one long-winded presidential response at a press conference, George Stephanopoulos grabbed Mack McLarty's wrist to point at his watch. "The upside is that Clinton explains everything, but the downside is that he gets too detailed," says a senior official...
...never grasped the full significance of Mr. T's jewelry until he took it all off at the dinner after the interview and I felt, well, dirty. He doesn't sport 40 pounds of gold and diamond chains, charms, wrist and ankle bracelets every day just to impress Crimson reporters, adoring fans, or even Crimson reporters who are adoring fans. Mr. T has some explanation for everything he wears. For instance, he eats his meals with the huge gold eating utensils around his neck (he takes his drink from a gold and diamond goblet, the idea for which...
...want it to go. The source of the problem can often be traced to the dust and dirt that has accumulated inside of the device. So clean your mouse (or trackball) interior often. It's an easy job and it may save you a lot of eye strain or wrist pain...
...radiantly giddy May seems a child to Newland, so he feels like a boy in Ellen's presence. The two fall in furtive love. But it is not falling so much as tiptoeing in the dark. Once he kisses her slipper; later he unbuttons her glove and kisses her wrist, then her mouth, which opens more in anguish than in lust. Guilt is the barrier between their lips. And both could be underestimating sweet May; the child has a will and means...
...children reaches over and pushes up the sleeve of the teacher's shirt. Just above the right wrist is a large tattoo of a spider, the mark of a criminal. The children are afraid of him. But, says one, "at least he helped. The other teachers did nothing but wait for the aid shipments, then steal the food and go home...