In many ways, Tuesday's elections were decidedly local affairs, a collection of mayor's races and ballot initiatives from California to Maine.
The revolution according to Michelle de Kretser is a powerfully human affair, a collection of personal histories, betrayals and tragedies.
The autumn revision of the city's budget is usually a sleepy affair, a collection of modest technical adjustments to keep income and expenses in sync.
Initially it was something of an ad hoc affair, a collection of lawyers and law-firm support staff who felt moved to activism by being "hit close to home," as Kingsley put it.
Jonathan B. Mintz, the commissioner of consumer affairs, said that abusive collection tactics "can significantly harm a consumer's credit history and impact the financial resources of those who need it most".
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But there are also quite a few stories in the collection about love affairs going horribly wrong!
Cees van Rij, the legal affairs director at the Dutch collection society Buma Stemra, said Dutch musicians had prodded his society to clinch a deal.
The Times's foreign affairs columnist, in an updated collection of essays supplemented by material from his diaries and other notes, examines, among other things, the tentacles of American power, the Middle East conflict and the transforming experience of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Sure, they're not always must-play affairs, but recent "Instant Game Collection" inclusions like OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood and the supremely shiny Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty! (pictured, above) have been more than warmly received by this rusty old gamer.
The giveaway to the unit's state of affairs, however, is its urine-collection system.
