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In the movie, Kate (Meryl Streep) passes out on the sofa while Ellen (Renée Zellweger) comically botches whatever she touches, and Franklin goes for cheap laughs with shots of burning chicken paillards, a smoldering chocolate cake, and plates on which the food has been left uneaten.
The task force acknowledged that the issue of institutional financial self interests is extraordinarily complex and sensitive, since it touches the very core of institutional autonomy.
LaHaye's advice, from the most florid talk of "eruptive" and "electrifying" touches to his prim injunction to "refrain from the use of back-alley words" during coitus, won't please everybody.
The president is putting the finishing touches on the multi-volume Selected Works of Jiang Zemin , which will "lay the theoretical foundation for Mr Jiang's status as the equal of Mao and Deng."
And so I picked up a copy of Gore's 1992 environmental manifesto, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit . I can't pass judgment on the scientific merits of the book's environmental analysis, but Gore touches on areas where I do know something and, in so doing, he gives me some important clues to his intellectual style.