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BY THE WAY, IS MULTITASKING RUDE? I JUST CHECKED MY EMAIL WHILE WE WERE TALKING. If the other person knows about it, yes. This is one of the great advantages that manners have over morals: if nobody knows, it doesn't count. If I hear the toilet flushing, it counts; if I don't, it doesn't.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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