Perhaps even more so because I have been listening to the dialogue about how to make America more post-racial -- mostly as it pertains to black and white culture -- for so long that it never occurred to me that an Asian immigrant family might cry foul when their son fell in love with an all-American girl like me.

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And when we raised a few brand-new questions, he looked as if he might start to cry.

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When it pays off in the form of victory, it's an authentic realization of human endeavor and potential, Janzen said, the awesomeness of which just might make you cry.

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When you learn that it is being taken seriously by the U.S. Air Force, and that we are spending tax dollars to train military doctors in this method, you might want to cry instead.

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Goux might start to cry.

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They cry that such equipment might "harass" whales, sea lions and the like.

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If he were younger, he might have started crying, the way kids cry for their mothers.

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Truth, we might sound a wee bit ridiculous when we cry out, "I can't believe Bay says they're aliens when they're obviously derived from radioactive slime!"

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But, heaven help us, should Phelps somehow fail to qualify for enough races so that he can't chase Spitz's record, NBC might just as well bag the whole 2008 Olympics and cry out: Everybody, outta the pool!

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The Review was dealing with bureaucracies like the New York City Department of Education and the Los Angeles Unified School District, a far cry from affluent parents eager to write checks that might buy an Ivy League admission.

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So, in essence, it is time for CIOs, CISOs, CSOs, CTOs, and anyone else who might get fired for a major security breach to have a good cry and realize how little control the good guys have and how fearsome the bad guys are.

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It was a cry of contentment, a simple expression of delight, the sort of thing anyone might say, on such a day.

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It's a far cry from the golden age of exploration, when daring men set sail into the unknown, fearful they might suddenly drop off the edge of the world.

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