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The sun was sinking out of sight at the end of 43 rd Street, where signs no longer read "43 rd Street" but instead "43 rd Street: Adolph S. Ochs Street," in tongue-twisting homage to the patriarch of the New York Times . Five or six neon-striped storefronts seem to have sprouted in the past five or six days.
The LAT reports that officials of Wilbur Wright Community College in Chicago say that their records show Lawrence was enrolled there at the time of the Bushnell sinking.
Bloosh , spotted in both X-Men and Superman , is the sound a body makes when hitting the water and sinking.
Phil Gramm, R-Texas, appeared more stupid than brave when he walked into the Democrats' trap on CBS's Face the Nation . Gramm compared Medicare to a sinking Titanic that shouldn't accept any new people, to which Clinton loyalists George Stephanopoulos (ABC's This Week ) and Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala ( Face the Nation ) responded with the administration's line.
Cynics' translation: He's sinking back to his level of competence . If Gates is better at what he'll be doing next, then he must have been worse at what he was doing before.