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...They did a great job against Brown last week,” Dawson said. “But in no capacity are we going to abandon our run game. We are going to mix things up a little...
...objection to the use of torture is based mainly on our moral opposition to it. It is thoroughly inhumane and un-American. In its earliest days, our country established that cruel and unusual punishment was a violation of the rights of human beings. Let us not abandon that principle today. Though the Guantanamo inmates are not American citizens, we believe that they should still be entitled to the rights our national heritage claims are self-evident...
...Asked how he would curb Iran's suspected nuclear-arms ambitions, President replied: "I hope we can do the same thing [as in the administration's multilateral diplomatic approach North Korea], continue to work with the world to convince the Iranian mullahs to abandon their nuclear ambitions. We worked very closely with the foreign ministers of France, Germany and Great Britain, who have been the folks delivering the message to the mullahs that if you expect to be part of the world of nations, get rid of your nuclear programs...
...more proof that it’s time to deemphasize the human polls, just look at the body that’s ramping up its support of them—the BCS. When you see that mess headed your direction, you know it’s probably best to abandon ship...
...surprising choice that Stone explains away with characteristically surrealist abandon. “Thunderbirds came on TV a couple of years ago and it really had such an interesting feel, but the stories were so boring and shitty so we started talking about how great it would be to do a movie like that,” Stone says. “It’s one of those things that was never intended to be funny, but now is really funny so it was kind of watching Thunderbirds and then kind of combining that with wanting to make...