I, the incipient novelist, even as a boy, was fascinated by the way people do talk.

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But even as a young boy, he says, he remembers feeling that China had hope.

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But even as the adventures of a bespectacled boy wizard have proven that the world still has an appetite for the written word, one wonders if Hodgman still sees a place for the publishing world he abandoned a decade or so ago to great success.

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One principal realized he'd never even considered doing household chores, not as a boy or, now, as a husband and a father.

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Dr. Koop wrote that he aspired to be a surgeon from the time he was a boy, even sneaking into a hospital to watch surgery at age 15 while posing as a medical student.

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The Turbo Express was about the size of a Game Boy but had a sharp active-matrix color display and could even be used as a portable TV with an optional tuner.

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Even so, Sprint seems to have effectively used Lightsquared as a whipping boy for Clearwire in their negotiations.

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And, as a final straw, your golden-boy position has been usurped by an even more glamorous and meaningless seat at the board table: the chief technology officer.

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The people whose lives he intrudes upon treat him with great kindness, including a woman (Viola Davis) whose husband (Jeffrey Wright) is leaving her even as the boy is rattling on in her face.

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Even as defense officials were following standard practice of neither confirming nor denying the reports, Olmert was bragging like a teenage boy.

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