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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."
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 ...
There must be days when she yearns for the sweet release of an unnoticed bite from a rabid bat.)
What are the crowning accomplishments of our society the world yearns for?