xiaoxiaoran.lens (@xiaoxiaoran) • Hey
xiaoxiaoran.eth
Publications
- **That agenda's centerpiece is the universal background-check legislation that would close the current loophole exempting gun-show and Internet sales from such requirements.**
- Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
- **Thursday’s commutations raise the number of people commuted under his tenure to 306—a far higher total than his immediate predecessors, but one that still falls short of historic levels of clemency from some presidents.**
- The world is always in movement.
- **Queen Elizabeth's cousin and friend, Margaret Rhodes, was interviewed by CNN recently and when asked if she was excited about the impending birth of Royal Baby, she replied "Not terribly." And then she laughed at herself a little and said, "Well, you know, everybody has babies, and it's lovely.**
- Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
- Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant.
- Watching the geriatric men’s softball team brought back memories of 3 yr olds playing t-ball.
- **FireWire is done away with in favor of a USB connection.**
- **Desperate for this to be her career, she would cold write to Hollywood agents as a child telling them that she was available for work--and one even wrote back.**
- The hawk didn’t understand why the ground squirrels didn’t want to be his friend.
- **The best thing is to telephone her.**
- **The "middle October" deadline came about under artificial circumstances to begin with.**
- **You can watch video here.**
- Sometimes it is better to just walk away from things and go back to them later when you’re in a better frame of mind.
- **“That’s four strong cups of coffee,” said Ganio.**
- **It is long past time to rectify that.**
- **Important things are happening in the world to deal with quirks like #OpFacebook.**
- **You actually can pay to meet them and other marquee names.**
- **In an email discussion about this issue, Eric Cummings, a literary critic who writes at the military blog On Violence, argued that a memoir-centric publishing industry has played the most instrumental role in stunting the growth of GWOT fiction.**
- Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
- **What is interesting, however -- and also admirable -- is how candid the president's most recent statement is about how calculation and conscience drove this particular decision.**
- **That was the assertion of an article in the Chicago Tribune this week.**
- **[Page Six] Here are some pictures of Jennifer Aniston and her fiance Justin Theroux looking very happy and laughy and in lurve on the red carpet for some sort of gala.**
- **4 Missouri, will be pretty interesting for yours truly with or without or without Kelly Clarkson's navel.**
- **The ordeal lasted for four days.**
- **September 8, 1995: Suddenly, Bob Dole's nomination no longer seems inevitable.**
- Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
- **In 1991, suicide bombers killed 19 people in the capital, including the hardliner defense minister, a major victory for the rebels.**
- **Santorum was a distant third with 15 percent, but his knock-on-every-door campaign strategy led to a late surge over the last two days of voting.**
- **Republican senators take turns catering Thursday luncheons at the Capitol, usually with home-state food items that highlight some local agrarian or culinary prowess.**
- **It’s the military’s job to protect the country from national security threats.**
- **But we were lucky, and we were able to get a mitochondrial DNA profile.” The profile didn’t immediately turn up a match.**
- **He served an almost unprecedented three terms as Utah governor and was generally very popular.**
- You know that tingly feeling you get on the back of your neck sometimes? I just got that feeling when talking with her. You know I don't believe in sixth senses, but there is something not right with her. I don't know how I know, but I just do.
- **Don't hurt us, Gregory goons.) Colbert revealed he tries to explain to his guests that the person on camera is an "active idiot" who is "willfully ignorant of what you know and care about." He tells guests, "please honestly disabuse me of my ignorance, and we'll have a great time." Sometimes it's not enough, though.**
- **There's some surprise when Abe shows up and the agent begins her pitch to him only to hear him say "it's not his decision." Peggy's the one with the money and, as she tells Megan later in the episode, the one with the "tax problem" — which sounds to me like she's simply trying not to brag for being the success that she and everyone else realizes she is.**
- **Tom now understands what's going on.**
- **One notices readily, Ethel, that French blood courses in your veins.**
- **I [sang] your anthem just to experience what that’s like.**
- **The ability to mobilize large numbers of people is often associated with the creation of an effective campaign.**
- Being silent is the perfect way to show contempt.
- **His hard-line stance on immigration worked.**
- **Has the Court ever held that something that is a tax for purposes of the taxing power under the Constitution is not a tax under the Anti-Injunction Act?**
- **It was hurtful to Jenner’s reputation, perhaps (though it’s not like the fatal car crash at issue went unpublicized), and also to anyone who suspects that a good way to help end stereotypes about women is to stop making jokes that rely on them.**
- **In other commentary, readers tore into another reader over the drug war, others teared up over the bus driver's birthday, another responded to the Cannabis Closet, and yet another gawked at Beinart's support for denying rights to Arab Israelis.**
- **What if we had a Moneyball Index, easily accessible to voters and the media, that rated each member of Congress on their votes to fund programs that have been shown not to work?**
- **Co-director and co-star Dean Obeidallah can't find the Snapple he likes in various convenience stores;**
- **Am I the only one here who thinks this room is too hot?**
- **NEWS BRIEF Using remote sensing technologies, U.S.**