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"Sex trainer: Best to practice seven days a week."

--Slogan imprinted on a Dolce dol·ce   Music
adv. & adj.
In a gentle and sweet manner. Used chiefly as a direction.



[From Italian, sweet, from Latin dulcis.]

Adv. 1.
 & Gabbana hoodie hoodie hood n (top) → sweat m à capuche;
(youth) → jeune m à capuche 
 bought during a Turin, Italy, shopping spree by fifth-place Olympic skater JOHNNY WEIR John G. "Johnny" Weir (born July 2, 1984 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania) is an American figure skater. He is a three-time U.S. national champion (2004-2006) and the 2007 national bronze medalist. He is currently ranked 9th in the world. , as reported by The Washington Post, February 22. Weir has repeatedly declined to state his sexuality

"I'm not a jock, I'm an artiste. I don't like to be called a jock because that makes me think of spandex-covered football players. It's not ... not me. I'm in rhinestones and velvet, not spandex."

--WEIR, in a television interview with NBC's Mary Carillo, February 13

"I'm just like any other girl there."

--Cyclist and trans woman KRISTEN WORLEY, on her goal of competing at the 2008 Olympics, as quoted by MSNBC.com, February 22

"I am never going to separate the shirts. And I'm never going to let anyone put them on."

--TOM GREGORY, who paid $101,100.51 in an online auction for the two shirts featured in Brokeback Mountain, as quoted by Gay.com. The money went to a Los Angeles-based children's charity

"If we make the Hulk gay, would you come back and make a second for us?"

--From a note to Brokeback and Hulk director ANG ANG

In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the NL Antillian Guilder.

Notes:
The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion.
 LEE from the head of Marvel Comics, as quoted by Lee upon receiving the Equality Award from the Human Rights Campaign in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
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Article Type:Brief article
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Date:Mar 28, 2006
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