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...proposed law has plenty of detractors, too. Some argue that prostitutes don't deserve what they view as special legal rights. "I think the best description for this bill is absurd," says state Senator Peter Roskam, a conservative member of the Senate Judiciary committee who is running in the Illinois Congressional race to replace retiring Republican House member Henry Hyde...
Furthermore, the statement that Harvard pays its managers “approximately under 10 percent” of the market value for their services is patently absurd. Even with today’s enormous salaries for investment management, very, very few investors manage to earn more than $18 million per year. The idea that an in-house manager of a $2 billion bond fund would be paid at least $180 million annually for even exceptional returns is totally out of proportion to the reality of Wall Street compensation. Even $18 million would be an exceptionally high rate of compensation...
...novel indicates, Malcolm intends to explore the consequences of fleeing and, if not forgetting the past, then omitting it. Leo’s efforts to protect his family from the truth range from the understandable (blindfolding his daughter as they pick through the debris of a bombing) to the absurd (refusing to tell his wife about his financial devastation...
...final, fallacious argument against the wall comes from within the U.S. Immigrant advocate groups complain that the wall will somehow make it more difficult for Mexican immigrants to find representation in the U.S. and will infringe upon their rights to organize and protest. This claim is absolutely absurd. The only people who will be affected by this wall are illegal immigrants, not the ones who have legally come to this country. Illegal immigrants are not part of the U.S., do not participate in the country’s social contract, and are therefore not entitled to the same rights...
...threat now conjured, W then resorts to ridicule and caricature; he taints the queer movement as being fringe and ludicrous with his image of mass copulation at Copley. The irony, of course, is that such a statement only makes Harvard’s Republicans seem absurd. Indeed, W cannot even come close to tainting the queer movement because his rhetoric has ensured suspicion of his judgment...