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  1. It's OK to get angry

    • Published:
      1. salon.com, August 02, 2001
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      • 1932 words
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    Matt Besser is angry about some things. "People take toasting way too seriously," says Besser, "especially the clinking glasses part. There are always a few people who are seated too far away from each other to easily clink. I say just raising the glass suffices, but some people need to make sure that everyone clinks everyone else's glass -- like it's some NASA 'go/no go' situation, as if there is some rule that if everyone doesn't clink then the toast isn't true.


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  2. Great American loser

    • Published:
      1. salon.com, November 10, 2000
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      • 1555 words
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    In a race in which the two major-party candidates spent a combined total of around $70 million, and in a time when money is increasingly essential to a candidate's success, a guy who bases his campaign around a pledge of accepting no money whatsoever isn't going to do very well.


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  3. Homecoming

    • Published:
      1. salon.com, October 23, 2000
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    The driver pulls up our Town Car to the front of the Queens Borough Elks Lodge No. 878. This is the site where James Gray wanted to film one of the final scenes in his new "corruption in the system/strife in the family" movie, "The Yards."


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