Not everyone, the guard retorted. You have to earn it. / Yeah, what'd you do to earn it, buddy? Rack up a dozen merit badges? Learn to tie your kerchief in a pretty knot? / Cass shot him a look. She didn't doubt that Dor was baiting the man on purpose, trying to draw him into a dick-measuring contest so he would be less likely to question their story that they were together.

A Sekhri girl had hid behind the lofty rocks which had remained unconquered for long, and had watched the British perishing ungainfully without adding any glory to the Empire.

It made perfect sense to Michael that the Berlin police would choose to infiltrate the Black Bloc, rather than the establishment leftist parties.

Thus, defective matrices exhibit high sensitivity to imperfections. It can be checked that the unperturbed matrices L* are in fact nearly-defective, because they have nearly-parallel eigenvectors. In particular, the matrices are themselves perturbations of order ε of exactly defective matrices L_(id).