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...Were you surprised by the response? Oh God, yes. The first thing that happened that morning is the BBC called me. They called me at 10 o'clock and I thought, "What's up with this?" Then I saw that it was on the Top 10 list. On Monday, I started getting e-mails from movie producers, the Today Show. I just sat at my desk going, "Oh my God!" I just wanted it to be in the New York Times! I would have been perfectly happy with that. And then it hit number one and it just stayed there...
...Yes, there will be self-evident irony (and perhaps some red faces) if we have a meeting to discuss changing the quorum and fail to get a quorum,” he said in an e-mail. “But that would simply highlight the importance of making that change...
...felt like God spoke to me and put this idea in my heart." The idea - encapsulated in the "Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change" - is a strikingly potent challenge to his denomination's official stance on global warming and to his own previous scorn. Yes, he says with a chuckle, "you could say the scales fell from my eyes...
March 17 is a day of utmost importance for the city of Boston. In fact it’s probably the most important day of the year for a majority of its residents. The day of which I speak is, of course, Evacuation Day. Yes, March 17 marks the day in 1776 when George Washington and his Continental Army drove the British armed forces under General Howe out of Boston. It is for this reason that our great city brims with glee every March 17, with merriments often carrying on into the wee hours of the night...
...they do it? For the same reason you do it. Oh, yes, you do. The temptation to embroider an anecdote is nearly universal. Did Uncle Charlie really parade around the house stark naked when he got drunk that time, or did he just strip to his underwear? Did it really snow 3 ft. in half an hour during that storm last winter? It's a long way from this to imagining that you were adopted by wolves during the Holocaust, but you can sort of get what Defonseca is driving at when she says in her defense that the yarn...