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Bush plays up his born-again faith to the religious right.
Given the irresponsibility you describe, not to mention the sleep disturbance, prudence (the virtue, not yours truly) demands that you either rustle up another roomie--preferably a young woman who is planning to become a nun--or take your chances being assigned a stranger.
Second, it neutralizes the "summary judgment" frame, since summary judgments are up to the judge, not the jury.
According to the Post lead, the FBI's willingness to let the NTSB (the government's accident investigation body) remain for the time being in charge of the EgyptAir investigation, rather than officially ratcheting it up into an up-front criminal probe, has a payoff: It placates the Egyptian authorities, who therefore have been more cooperative in sharing flight and personnel records with the Bureau, which outside the U.S. has no power to seize evidence.
) There cropped up, here and there, objections to the use of black to describe things other than good and pure, and Black is beautiful became the catchword of the day.