Word: yawns
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...ever since, and is now prepping for the rematch, which will take place in Manhattan in May. Today, in this cramped lab at T.J. Watson, Deep and Deeper are playing their first father-son game, a sort of silicon Oedipal struggle. The first 15 moves are what chess types yawn at as "standard"--established openings. Very safe. No surprises...
...violence sweeping through the lives of the poor. "No one is surprised when an underclass kid is raped or killed," says Patrick Murphy, the Cook County Public Guardian. "I think we expect these kids to get killed. It's not that people don't care. It's that they yawn. Whereas if it's a blond-haired, blue-eyed kid, they all go crazy. I've seen it a million times...
...Sensing my confusion, my guides point out that this is just a suburb of the main Microsoft headquarters, which is 25 times as large and looks, when I finally see it, about the size of Minneapolis. Around 20,000 Microserfs work there. Some people call it the Hive. I yawn, feigning a lack of interest. The yawn might have sounded like a moan. I don't know...
Perhaps Americans' insatiable craving for scandal makes this a big story. But even as a citizen deeply concerned about the role of money in politics, I can't help but yawn when hearing these charges. This is not only because the wholesale influence-peddling that goes on uncommented in Congress and state legislatures is a much bigger story. More importantly, what difference do the maximum contribution limits really mean for campaigns? How is the electoral process made more fair if lots of upper middle class people control campaign funding instead of a few magnates...
...rude and nasty; they fight with the guards; the guards fight back; the guards get involved with them and/or try to rape them; the warden is evil; through the whole trying experience, someone dies, and the rest of them become better people and closer friends through all of it. Yawn...