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"For so long we were up on a pedestal with people telling us, `You're not going to lose,' that we lost our edge," Oklahoma defensive end Dan Cody said of the Kansas State loss.

In any case, he was soon telling her to keep her mouth shut in front of his friends.

Ms. Bourgeois may have contributed nothing new to the technical exploration of prints, but she has used the medium to telling effect.

What unique devices are available to the film director when telling his or her story? To mark the centenary of the birth of Joseph Cornell (1903-72), Richard L.

But in San Francisco, how can you affect Washington?We started with the idea of raising money by telling our friends and making new friends and spreading the word. "That's telling you there's a market there," he said.

There was a basic triangle: Larry; Jeff, his manager, who helps get him into trouble (usually in the form of telling lies and keeping secrets, Larry being spectacularly bad at the latter); and Cheryl, his wife, who calls him to account.

And at the same time you've got somebody screaming in your ear, telling you to shut up or keep going.

Khademi was at his side in the emergency room in Mahan, telling the doctor she would give her own blood.

"They're telling them, `You'll never see this again.' And as I'm writhing in agony delivering my beautiful daughter, one of the doctors looks up and says, `Aren't you Al Franken?' " "They're all asking him questions about `Saturday Night Live.' I said, `Wait a minute!Pay attention to me.

It is perhaps telling that, according to reports, Jack White's most recently completed composition is titled 'Let's Play The Victim'.

Good television directors sometimes catch the telling signs, but their commentators do not seem to notice, or perhaps lack a language for it.

Then he sighed and said, “I wish there was a machine that could really say when someone is telling the truth, but you sound sincere when you talk about our issues.

is telling lawyers to regard his trial dates as set in stone, unless there is an illness or extenuating circumstance.

Inside the control room, Levine raises an eyebrow at me, as if to say, ''You see what we're up against?'': the voters are telling a pollster that their chief impression of a candidate is that he doesn't poll well.

''And we want to know: can we get them from here to here?'' For a researcher like Reilly, who spends most of his time in the private sector, the analogy to soda is telling.

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