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Some industry observers suggested that IBM may have had ulterior motives for knocking Intel's quality, since Big Blue will begin selling the competing PowerPC microprocessor next spring.

“that's shit” was his favorite laconic expression.

I, like an usurped town to another due (from a poem by John Donne)

“Put Fidelity's Renowned Investment Management Expertise to Work For You,” blares the brochure.

The silver-tongued Ross always extricated himself from dicey situations and ...

...venture forth to expunge the hydra-headed “gry” riddle once and for all.

this is a seminal finding.

two kids tussles over the cake.

The federal courts may have temporarily put a halt to enforcement of Proposition 187, but many Californians — who passed the Nov. 8 initiative 59% to 41% — appear to be ignoring the legal injunction and taking enforcement into their own hands. In the past two weeks special Prop 187 hot lines in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Fresno and Sacramento have received thousands of calls from distraught victims reporting impromptu acts of discrimination that recalled the vigilante spirit of the old Wild West.

...appear to be ignoring the legal injunction and taking enforcement into their own hands.

For all that, Star Trek has never won much respect. In the realm of long-running entertainment phenoms, Sherlock Holmes has more history; James Bond, more class Star Wars; and Indiana Jones, more cinematic cachet.

The ultimate goal of Scriabin's experiments, the Misterium, which was to have resulted in the ecstatic cataclysm of the human race, was left incomplete at his death.

The story of the deaf in America is intimately bound up with ASL and its travails.

These connivers didn't just feed a few answers to favored contestants to boost ratings. They destroyed a nation's innocence.

What's to stop publishers from striking out on their own, using the new improved Internet as their online kiosk?

Is nicotine a drug or not? Both Congress and the FDA need to know before they fire the next volley in the tobacco wars, and they are looking to science for guidance.

Nowadays colleges have to hustle for students by truckling trendily.

The harder and more meaningful questions is whether the mediocrities who have also flooded into colleges in the past couple of generations do better than they otherwise would have.

...these other countries tend to separate the college-bound from the quotidian masses in early adolescence,...

...The virtue of the book is that it captures the quotidian misunderstandings between men and women in the work place.

as the death and postmortem of Comet Shoemaker-Levy unfold, that...