• Maybe the soil out there is so rich, the days so hot and the nights so cool and crisp, that a 12, 000-pound potato is within the realm of possibility.

    WSJ: At the Intersection of Yoko and Idaho

  • And when the inevitable finally happened, the defeat was so total, the surrender so unconditional and the disgrace of the militarists so complete that all the public's stifled frustration, anger and contempt burst like an overfilled dam.

    ECONOMIST: Japanese history

  • With the help of a few guest players and the inclusion of the viola, lap steel, upright bass, mandolin, and piano, "Letter To You" has a rich sound characteristic of the 8-piece indie-pop-orchestral band Margot and the Nuclear So and So's.

    NPR: Dish: 'Cold Is'

  • Ms. MINES: The scary thing is that the TV is basically raising a lot of these girls, and they are becoming obsessed with this ideology of looking like the young women in the videos and so that they can do the dances and so that they can get these guys.

    NPR: Roundtable: Black Women and Body Image

  • On a recent visit, a guest marveled at Case's hubris: The Sonoran Desert setting is so picturesque, the activities so singular (and space-demanding--the resort spans 317 acres), the staff so large and highly educated, and the variety of activities so extensive that the idea of all this being both exportable and profitable seems counterintuitive.

    FORBES: Ballancing Act

  • Public concern is so great, media coverage so voluminous, the response from politicians so easily misinterpreted, and the fact patterns so detailed, that it would be immensely challenging for any industry to dig out from the weeds and identify a few fundamental themes to guide a strategy going forward.

    FORBES: An Immodest Proposal to Spur Nuclear Energy Industry Growth -- and Global Safety

  • The game is so gorgeous, and the enemy models so detailed and fun, it would really be amazing to see a version (not a port) of the Infinity Blade series come to a real gaming machine.

    FORBES: Late To The Party Thoughts On 'Infinity Blade'

  • Any scheme of taxation and regulation that did not leave the drugs so cheap and so available as to increase hugely the abuse problem would instead generate an illicit market not much smaller than exists under prohibition.

    ECONOMIST: Legalising drugs

  • Professor RICHARD DEKMEJIAN: Now this is their perception: that we want to establish in Iraq a basis to project American power to control the oil and so on and so forth.

    NPR: Examining the Makeup of the Iraqi Insurgency

  • But the results are so positive and so profound that the courses have grown in popularity purely by word of mouth, and travellers are increasingly fitting them into their India itineraries.

    BBC: Following the Buddha around Bombay

  • The objective was those scenes of mayhem and because you are talking about people who plan that, they come and they put on masks, it's difficult to get any shots of them and so on for the cameras and so they all got away, the ringleaders, last year.

    BBC: News Online

  • Because the competition is so intense and the buyer so selective, that the wise niche players are the ones who thrive.

    FORBES: What Brand Is Your Therapist? (Or Lawyer or Accountant?)

  • How the time a detainee asked a female medic to lean over so he could whisper something to her, and when she did, smashed her face against the cell so hard and so viciously that she had to undergo reconstructive surgery?

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Guantanamo Bay: five years later

  • So the ranchers complained, and so did the hunters, who were losing elk and moose to wolves.

    FORBES: Kill The Wolf

  • Not least when they pander to a British public that no longer shares many of the fundamental values of the United States and our approach to the world and so distance themselves from the "special relationship" that has served both nations -- and the world -- so well.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Waning "Special Relationship?"

  • It may be that the situation on Wall Street is so complex, and the stakes so high, that lawmakers themselves have little confidence in their abilities to map a successful recovery for the industry, so they are relying on the sheer magnitude of their spending and the ingenuity of those left standing on Wall Street to work their market magic and revive the economy.

    CNN: Commentary: Wall Street got the better bailout

  • The narrative is so intense and the details are so rich that you can forget to breathe.

    WSJ: Bates Motel on A&E; Top of the Lake on Sundance: Television Reviews by Nancy deWolf Smith

  • Unlike the options Abravanel had to weigh, since the dawn of modern Zionism, our leaders have had the option of demanding and commanding the respect of the nations of the world and so securing the lives of the Jews and nationhood of the Jewish people in our land.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Professor Netanyahu's lessons

  • One of the biggest criticisms of the bill concerns the PTO's funding, which some think should be increased so that the office can hire and keep the best examiners and so reduce a huge backlog of applications.

    ECONOMIST: Intellectual property

  • The fees, that is, are sometimes so onerous and the tax results so bad (some of what you get from the trust is doubly taxed and taxed at rates of up to 35%) that escaping a trust might be worth paying a ransom to the promoter, plus the capital gains tax you were avoiding in the first place.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Our scientists generally think that global warming will cause a melting of the icecaps and that will raise the water level and so on and so forth, but that might not be the worst thing that happens.

    BBC: News | Back to the future | John Mohawk

  • So the commission believes, and so the Obama people, in theory, say too.

    ECONOMIST: The United States and Islam

  • You might almost call it a testament to human fortitude, if the results were not so perverse and the outcomes so costly.

    CNN: After Boston, nothing will change

  • Such a branding process applies in every regulatory venue, but nowhere more critically than in an area like FCPA where the exposure can be so indeterminate and the liabilities so dramatic.

    FORBES: FCPA: An Ongoing Leadership Challenge

  • New markets seldom get built this way, unless the consumer experience is so compelling and the brand so powerful that people will consider a totally new class of product (see the iPad, which demonstrates just how high a bar those criteria are to meet).

    FORBES: Is Google Too Rushed to Pioneer?

  • So if the environmental and economic upswing is so great, and the technology already exists, what needs to happen for the U.S. to harness its efficiency reserves?

    FORBES: Log Baby Log: The Race to The Big New Resource Play You Haven't Heard Of

  • Unfortunately the public sector is so large and the poorer states so over-represented in congress that trying to change any of this can appear impossible.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil

  • The deadlock is so intractable, and the mistrust so deep, that the entire process of adapting the military to a changing world is at risk of paralysis.

    ECONOMIST: Anything useful to do, besides fighting the army?

  • We have to stand foursquare and 100 percent with the commanders in the field and so on and the rest of the argument.

    NPR: Senate Approves Iraq Withdrawal Timetable

  • Prosecutors had argued that Mr. Clemens had fought the case so hard and denied the allegations for so long specifically because he didn't want to lose his chance at that honor.

    WSJ: Roger Clemens Not Guilty of Lying Over Steroids

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