Perhaps pleasing rich donors who benefited greatly from the Trump top-heavy tax cuts has become the driving force behind what remains of Republican economic thinking.
He started at a building on Riverside Drive near 152nd Street on Sept. 4, and, perhaps pleased about the DVD player he stole, he returned to the building 26 days later, stealing a laptop and cellphone.
Investors, perhaps pleased by any bit of good news from Research in Motion, pushed up the beleaguered BlackBerry maker's share price on Friday almost 7 percent after a quarterly financial report that, while loss ridden, was not as bad as feared.
There were twenty small-size gray suits like Mr. Beresford's on every New York block, fifty men still clean-shaven and pressed after a day in an air-cooled office, a hundred small men, perhaps, pleased with themselves for remembering their wives' birthdays.
The school of hefty grains and replacement ingredients -- soy for dairy, carob for chocolate, anything for fat -- substitutes philosophy for flavor, perhaps pleasing a small group of adherents but turning off a majority of people, who roll their eyes and reach for another Big Mac.
Ultimately, however, Shaw changed his mind and accepted the command, perhaps to please his mother.
But recently they have changed their minds, perhaps to please the establishment around the court of the old king.
And in that future I thought, naively, that perhaps, oh, please, gods everywhere, when that happened, it might just be that Charlotte would be there, single, and, oh, please, dear gods, I might just be someone she'd notice.
