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I've already seen a million cheesecake photos of Gwyneth Paltrow and Drew Barrymore, and despite the dictates of Talk's "Hip List," I am not prepared to believe that scabby knees are cool.
A combination of Mexican and prison cultural values dictates the behavior of pintos inside prison and out on the street.
You're claiming credit for sharing whatever humanitarian or geostrategic concern dictates military action, while opposing the use of the only military power you yourself bear responsibility for.
The inevitable trade-off between safety and cost, plus the law of diminishing returns, dictates that you stop well short of the highest possible standards.
Time 's peculiar cover story announces and names the new "femaleist" movement: biological feminism based on new research showing that women's bodies are "tougher, stronger, and lustier" than stereotype dictates.