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...cocaine use. On Friday a U.S. magistrate released Barry on his own recognizance but required him to undergo a weekly urinalysis. After his court hearing, Barry's lawyer R. Kenneth Mundy said the mayor planned to plead not guilty to the cocaine-possession charge. The mayor declined to answer questions, then vowed to "go about the business of government...
...good thing. In order to wring maximum suspense out of each encounter, Palliser allows his narrator some shameless stalling. "Not so fast," one character remarks, when asked a leading question, and the reader is inclined to mutter, "Faster." John's mother is particularly maddening in her refusals to answer her son's questions. A typical response: "No, I won't tell you that. Not yet. One day you'll know everything." Postulate a more forthcoming parent, and the novel would be 200 pages shorter...
With Washington correspondent Michael Riley and Houston bureau chief Richard Woodbury, Beaty talked to hunters and sportsmen across the country. When N.R.A. president Joe Foss learned that some of his lobbyists seemed reluctant to cooperate, he ordered them to answer all questions...
Alexander Graham Bell thought the telephone should properly be answered by saying, "Hoy! Hoy!" -- an odd term from the Middle English that became the sailor's "ahoy!" and reflected Bell's sense that those speaking on early telephones were meeting like ships on a lonely and vast electronic sea. The world has now grown electronically dense, densest of all perhaps among the Japanese, who answer the phone with a crowded, tender, almost cuddling, quick- whispered mushi-mushi. The Russians say slushaiyu (I'm listening). The hipper Russians say allo. Italians say pronto (ready). The Chinese say wei, wei (with...
...women of the same size have identical drinks, women tend to get tipsy faster. Scientists have long wondered if there might not be a more compelling biochemical explanation for the drinking puzzle. Last week a team of Italian and American researchers offered what looks to be the answer: women have far smaller quantities of the protective enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase that breaks down alcohol in the stomach...