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It bears about as much semblance to what I've written as a creationist tract attacking evolution bears to Darwin's Origin of Species . It is so outrageous one almost yearns for British laws on libel so that I could force her to prove her claims, such as that I am "evolutionary psychology's anti-Semite" or that my ideas about Jews "represent the broadest, ugliest, and most vicious anti-Semitism passing for scholarship in this country today."
There must be days when she yearns for the sweet release of an unnoticed bite from a rabid bat.)
Sunraider yearns to know who his mother is, and Hickman wants to know how Bliss became Sunraider.
Critics applaud rookie Belgian director Alan Berliner's film, about a 7-year-old boy who yearns to be a girl, for giving "an inside report ...
What are the crowning accomplishments of our society the world yearns for?