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...evidence supports that [the fight] was an attempt to fend off Colono [to avoid] imminent death or bodily harm,” Parker said, adding that his client did not have the opportunity to flee the scene...
...though we tried to avoid it, it happened over the course of those two hectic months in Rome that my roommate and I, two open music snobs, cut off from all sources of new music (save MTV), became completely sympathetic to the arguments in favor of bad pop and established our eternal patronage to a single song that forever in my mind will come to define summer...
...tried really hard to remain consistent, and we knew we had to avoid having a bad race,” Johnson said. “Even if we had a bad race, we still tried to catch as many boats as possible...
...most hideous products, the woman in the textile shop immediately contradicts all my selections, simply saying “No” to each fabric I point to. Finally I just completely surrender to her judgment. Kiras come in a vast array of colors and prints, though I carefully avoid red, which only monks and nuns wear—a fact I learned after I had arrived wearing a red button-down shirt. “You’d make a great nun, Merritt,” my roommate Linda writes jokingly when I tell her of my fashion...
...avoid any potential confusion, I will make explicit what my intentions are not: to mock George Bush’s capacity for verbalizing coherent thoughts. I promise I have grown out of that. Yes, there was a time when I considered myself supremely cool for owning the book Is Our Children Learning?, when “subliminable” and “wings take dream” made for a satisfactory criticism of our alleged president. Not anymore. These days, I will be the first to defend George Bush’s command of rhetoric and verbal manipulation...