And finally, since the world is a strange and wonderful place sometimes, while writing this piece an email came from some friends of mine with their Xmas gift: a donation in my name to Doctors Without Borders.
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"30 Rock" was not perfect: It sometimes spun its wheels and its writing was often too showy.
Now, immigrant advocacy groups are focusing heavily on calling and writing members of Congress, sometimes targeting specific lawmakers at key moments in the debate.
Writing off the differences is sometimes the wisest course of action.
Though he enjoyed hoaxes, he would sometimes turn them on himself, once writing, under a pseudonym, a withering review of one of his own works in the New York Review of Books.
"The writing style has an edge that is sometimes raw, definitely original, and truthful, " says Julie Ha, a reporter for the Rafu.
Though his vocal parts sometimes meandered, Mr. Previn's orchestral writing was smart and evocative, encompassing hints of Benjamin Britten and touches of jazz, like the sinuous saxophone riffs that color the rhapsodic, earthy relationship of Stella and Stanley.
Sometimes, I'd be in the middle of writing a scene when I'd realize something wasn't known yet by that character.
They share an e-mail address, which meant that it was sometimes difficult for me to ascertain who, precisely, was writing.
Old folks sometimes have difficulty seeing, much less holding a pencil and writing, let alone walking to the mailbox or the post office itself.
He says he sometimes completed more than 1, 000 jobs a day, ranging from writing golfing tips to doling out parenting advice.
Writing was our only certain mode of expression, even if it sometimes failed us.
Though the sometimes indolent ways of the British upper classes served as his muse, his writing gave the impression that he embraced the immense, and in a very real sense, the anti-conservative changes wrought by Thatcherism.
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