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Not so in France, where names are part of the patrimoine , the national heritage, and are not to be altered or forsaken lightly: a poet friend had to spend several years and a lot of money to get a missing s restored to the official version of his surname, so that now, instead of being B\acap\tard `mongrel' he's plain old Bastard and, what's more, is very happy about it.
USA Today also off-leads Iowa, leading instead with yesterday's 3.3 percent drop in the Nasdaq and 2.2 percent drop in the Dow.
The New York Times fronts that, but leads instead with the tremendous earthquake (magnitude 7.6) that hit Taiwan early today, killing thousands, and trapping perhaps just as many in toppled-over and collapsed buildings.
' Thus, instead of telling the truth, admitting the facts and seeking forgiveness of family and nation, he launched a campaign designed to erode confidence in the duly appointed system of justice."
He says it's wrong to think of a baby as the equivalent of a microwave oven; instead, you should think of it as the equivalent of an addictive drug.