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...body to the same place but by different routes. As always, use a little common sense. Tea is one of life's simple pleasures. If you enjoy it, go ahead and drink it. But don't expect it to make up for bad habits, like smoking, or for bad luck, like whatever genetic shortcomings you were born with...
...give us your tired, your poor” United States of America. Visa-holders, having left a sweaty fingerprint and deathly-white photograph for the steroid-pumping security guard, go off to haggle for their baggage with the other traumatized “aliens.” With any luck, they also catch a glimpse of a majestic George W. Bush standing before a fluttering Stars and Stripes, with a banner bellowing: “Mission Accomplished”—or some similar piece of patriotic overkill...
...name you hear on the cable-and-best-seller circuit. But few can match her record for turning around campaigns that are just this side of hopeless. And she was one of the few people left in Washington who shared Kerry's belief that his luck hadn't run out. "She felt it was winnable," Kerry told TIME. "She distinctly felt that, as I did. But we knew we had to make some adjustments...
...hangdog depressed that they cause any winning gamblers around them to begin losing. Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) is particularly good at the job—so good in fact, that he need only brush up against someone to cut short a winning streak. But as luck would have it, days before he is about to retire, he meets Natalie (Maria Bello), a waitress drawn in by his pitiable existence. The encounter quickly progresses and soon Natalie is firmly clutching a nude Bernie’s genitalia in one of the year’s more unsettling images. The ensuing...
FRENCH: The lazybones with cravings for the richness of French cuisine are in luck: French professors enthusiastically recommend Sandrine’s, the local bistro on Holyoke St. C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature Susan R. Suleiman rave about the saurkraut sausages, while Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Alexia E. Duc loves the Flame Kuch, a hearty pie made with cheese, lard, bacon and eggs. Both Suleiman and Duc praise Sandrine’s for its fine replication of dishes from Alsace, a region in Eastern France. Duc, a native...