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Around where I live, not far from the M4 corridor, there are great tracts of broadleaved woodland, heaving with deer and squirrels (all right, so they're grey squirrels, not red, but still preferable to no squirrels at all).

But equally as significant, Davis's interracial marriage was perhaps the last such union to provoke serious scandal, and his supposed preference for white partners soon made him suspect to newly prideful black audiences instead.

On summer days, expect to see bathers at Tobey Pond, Norfolk's motorboat-free municipal swimming area, though many residents prefer their own private lakes.

''Norfolk is hard to pronounce and even harder to reach, so it sort of selects itself out,'' Mr. Gill said, referring to the preference among both weekenders and locals to say the town's name as NOR-fork.

Mr. Gore said that Senator Harkin's endorsement, with its declaration that Iowans preferred an occasional misstep to canned campaign oratory, would lay any concerns to rest.

Given the theatre's commitment to equal opportunities - as evidenced by their decision to hand the part of Red Riding Hood's dad to wheelchair-user Mark Beer - my personal preference would have been for her to come on in a burqa, perhaps seeing off her predator with a Kalashnikov.

She would rarely venture out into the corridor, preferring instead to stay at home and anxiously wait by the doorway for Hashy to return.

They are rather members of varied cluster groups, each with its own habits and preferences and each christened with its own label: Golden Gals (Republican-leaning senior women now tilting Democrat), Country Folk (rural whites) or the F-You Old Men (self-explanatory).

Most people associate Ruby Wax with the variety of A-list celebrities she’s interviewed over the years, and particularly during her well-known series Ruby Wax Meets... Abandoning predictable Parkinson-esque routines where, in claustrophobic studios, gushing, glossy stars promote their new film or book, Wax preferred a far more informal approach.

Jamie Wood, owner of Bitterroot Grocery Emporium, said she prefers the taste of Lifeline's milk over the ultra-pasteurized organic milk they sell.

The university let the art (or sacrilege, if you prefer) be.

Gucci, as it happens, preferred not to be taken over by LVMH and its leader, the sleek as a fox Bernard Arnault.

Regardless of your atmospheric preference -- cold or hot, wet or dry -- 2003 had something for everyone.

Andrew Desch prefers to type short assignments on a computer.

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