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When he was a child living in Manhattan while his father worked for the United Nations, the boy who was to become Britain's Fifth Baron Haden-Guest of Saling passed his happiest hours staring out his apartment window at the passing parade. He would imitate the funny walks he saw, improvising accents he imagined might match them...
Shortly after we married, I found my husband savaging my window treatments. "What have you done to the swag?" I asked, eyeing a mess on the living-room floor that would never, ever again hang in crisp folds across a decorative rod. "I figured it was time to let the drapes do some work," he said. What drapes? Even the cat knew we had nothing hidden up there. Just the, uh, former swag...
Microsoft's most recent tactical maneuvering also gives strong reason to doubt its interest in an expeditious appeals process. The company's proposed timetable for the appeal includes a more than five-month window in which to file documents and a provision for allowing briefs to be more than four times the normal length. Microsoft claims that such provision are warranted by the complexity and monumental nature of the case at hand. Its argument, however, is ill-founded. While complexity and historical import demand a thorough and unbiased weighing of the facts and a fair adjudication the parties conflicting claims...
...vest debate, the stiff, podium-chained debate in which candidates stuck close to their stump speeches and took no chances with attacks. It wasn't exactly that -- in fact, it wasn't long before a passive Jim Lehrer let all those meticulously negotiated time constraints go right out the window...
...human brain is particularly vulnerable as it develops through childhood and into the teenage years, finally maturing when we reach our 20s. As the brain develops, windows open up and the mind has its best opportunity to acquire knowledge and easily learn new skills, such as speaking a foreign language. If the window closes--either with the normal passage of time or because the brain has been damaged--learning that language can be much harder...