Word: certainly
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...answers (and perhaps in a bid to keep Murdoch from buying them up lock, stock and barrel), both newspapers worked in down-and-dirty financial analyses of the movie crisis, trying, without success, to work out the arithmetical correlation between moviegoers' appetites and the position of the moon and certain planets...
...stunning move certain to transform American politics, the Democratic and Republican parties announced that they will merge to form a giant new mega-party called...
...cells become dangerous.) If there is a problem, so the theory goes, it could be traced to a particular duct, which would then be carefully monitored for signs of malignancy. One major drawback: seemingly abnormal results can be triggered by changes in the breast during pregnancy, breast feeding, certain stages of the menstrual cycle, and menopause...
What's not to like about The Patriot? Well it certainly suffers from irony deficiency. It is four-square for democracy and decency, and this, of course, will cause a certain amount of superciliousness among the postmodernist swells. Since it is a story about the American Revolution, it will suffer from the age-old suspicion of movies in which guys wear knee britches and write with quill pens. But if the mass audience can get behind Gladiator, why shouldn't it take a flier on more recent history? You telling us Russell Crowe is cuter than Mel Gibson...
...incriminating statements because he had not been read his Miranda rights before the police questioned him. The appeals court, known for its conservative stance, ruled against the defense, calling on a largely ignored piece of 1968 legislation that, among other things, deemed the reading of rights unnecessary in certain situations. That legislation, declared Justice Rehnquist, writing for the majority, was moot, because "Congress may not legislatively supersede our decisions interpreting and applying the Constitution." Rehnquist's appearance among the left-leaning majority was a surprise to some legal analysts; Justices Scalia and Thomas took up the opposing side...