Word: spirits
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...point and illustrates the approach to scholarly undertaking that I was bent on defending. It's not a polemic of any kind and it doesn't promote an agenda. It shows the worst part of what we have done to ourselves as Americans and the best part, the loving spirit of people involved in the Civil...
Finally, we channel the spirit of Joe Bloggs--the fictional character created by The Princeton Review to teach high schoolers how not to take the SAT. An average student, Joe nails all the easy questions (except for the ones he makes careless mistakes on) and misses all the hard ones. Once students are armed with this knowledge, "What would Joe do?" becomes a question rivaling the familiar bumper sticker query in cosmic importance. On hard questions, you probe the answer choices for the likely Joe Bloggs answer--that is, the most appealing (read: wrong) answer. When you identify the answer...
...self-consciously audacious MTV show, TOM GREEN has mimed having sex with a dead moose and tricked his grandmother into licking a sexual device, so is it any wonder that kindred spirit DREW BARRYMORE--who gleefully bared her breasts for David Letterman--snapped him up before anyone else could? The couple announced their engagement following a six-month romance that included Green's successful treatment for testicular cancer and Barrymore's difficult stay on the set of the Charlie's Angels movie. It's Green's first engagement, Barrymore's third (she was briefly married to a barkeep...
Vlad, you've got mail: In the Net spirit, Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin suggested the Big 8 keep in touch via e-mail. Experts worried about security and snoopy hackers. We wondered about screen names on the Buddy List: "madvlad", "dcbubba," and "3rdwaytony...
That title, in an ineffable way, catches the Al Gore spirit. You could not get the same effect with "Utility Rates in Chicago: A Revisionist View" or Utility Rates in San Diego: A Revisionist View." But Toronto works perfectly. Why? Because - to beat poor Leo's joke to death - the mention of Toronto somehow dials the mind to just that frequency (Gore's frequency!) at which it is possible to imagine a man of such suffocating worthiness that he might wish to propose, at some considerable length, "a revisionist view" of the already crushingly elaborated subject of the city...