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...turns out, much of the fun of The Preservationist lies with Noe's daughters-in-law, who furnish him with a chatty, catty shipboard peanut gallery. His eldest son Sem (usually spelled Shem) is married to unflappable, pragmatic Bera, who gets stuck with a lot of the animal-gathering chores. "The problem with people who think that God will provide," she remarks tartly, "is that they think God will provide." Cham (Ham)--the most skeptical of the sons and the most sympathetic--is paired with mysterious, icy Ilya, a refugee from a northern land who subjects Noe's religious zeal...
...dusty classic reels weren’t enough for any seasoned film buffs in the class, Mitchell also managed to furnish them with a special pre-release screening of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill...
...does the White House make these self-destructive defensive maneuvers? The answer may lie in an unlikely comparison. When, at his last press conference, President Bush refused to accept any responsibility for the failures that led to 9/11, and could not, when asked, furnish an example of any mistakes he had made and learned from since then, he reminded me of—of all people—Bill Clinton. You may remember that, as the Monica Lewinsky crisis escalated towards impeachment, many observers remarked that it was not the affair but the lie to the nation...
...Medicare bill looks like a gift on the surface, but it is actually a Trojan horse, with a bellyful of woe for young and old alike. No doubt Bush is banking that this largesse will furnish him with a kinder, gentler image just in time for the 2004 election. But in fact, he’s up to his usual tricks: rewarding his contributors and scoring political points while obscuring the long-run costs of his latest debacle...
...administrators know that some students would take advantage of co-ed living to shack up? In an October 2000 article in the Christian Science Monitor, Haverford educators allowed that some students who lived together were in relationships—but said that the goal is to furnish a kind of home-like atmosphere...