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In "Moneybox" (June 19), James Surowiecki noted that the market cap of Amazon.com was larger than that of Barnes & Noble, leading him to conclude that the Street values the offline stores at next to nothing.
Both shows feature leggy professional babes with big, fabulous tresses (Amy Brenneman of NYPD Blue as Amy in Judging Amy , Melina Kanakaredes as Syd Hansen in Providence ) who have thrown over high-powered careers (corporate law for Amy, plastic surgery for Syd) in fast-paced cities (New York, Los Angeles) for noble, self-sacrificing careers (family court judge, family doctor) in depressed Northeastern cities (Hartford, Providence), where they both move in with their families.
Earlier in this century, pansy became a derogatory epithet to describe an effete male, thereby cheapening forever lines like Shelley's noble image in Adonais (verse XXXIII):
And it said that the heads of government who appointed them "have taken on a grave responsibility by making themselves accomplices of their imbecilic 'smart bombs,' thus delegitimizing the noble aims with which this intervention was undertaken."
The Republican Party's liberal wing (as moderates were then called) was filled with noble purpose about civil rights and women's rights, two issues on which Democrats would not achieve dominance until the 1960s.
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