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Until yesterday, in both the trials held in Kishinev, as well as in the trial held four years ago to prosecute Lemrick Nelson Jr., the defendants managed to escape justice. This escape reached absurd proportions in Nelson's case: after the "not guilty" verdict was returned, the "exonerated" man went to a party with the jurors who voted for him his freedom while Rosenbaum's family and the Jewish community mourned their loss...
...American Atheists' officers belittled the idea. The money, they said, was simply the group's "trust fund," from whose interest American Atheists might one day be expected to pay operating expenses. Tyson told TIME the notion that the Murray-O'Hairs had taken it with them into hiding was "absurd. We know where every bank account is. Every penny is accounted for." By last December, however, the tune had changed: 1995 tax forms for the United Secularists of America, one of American Atheists' affiliated groups, stated, "The $612,000 shown as a decease [sic] in net assets...represents the value...
...objectivist audience that alarmed me. I went to the debate hoping that Professor Kennedy would expose objectivism for what it really is--an angry and disingenuous pseudo-philosophy that indoctrinates the philosophically challenged, that has tried to appropriate reason and egoism as its own (gosh, that sounds absurd) by plagiarizing philosophical ideas that have been around for centuries, that parades as the savior of angry middle-class voters in search of a justification to be penny-pinching and concerned about no one in the world but themselves...
...grade point average of black students in the Oakland school district, which compares with an average 3.0 for white and Asian students. One result: 20 percent of blacks who reach 12th grade in Oakland fail to graduate. While members of the subcommittee commented that teaching ebonics was ?absurd,? the issue they must decide is whether to allow federal money targeted to teaching foreign languages to be used for the controversial program...
MARNE-LA-VALEE, France: It was a scheme even Sartre would have appreciated. Build a massive American theme park a short drive from Paris. Fill it with happy, smiling faces, quaint rides and catchy, inoffensive music and wait for the cultured, sophisticated Europeans to flock to it. It was absurd, a sure failure. Imperial America at its most foolish. Five years ago, Parisians smoking cigarettes at Les Deux Magots sniggered into their cafe au laits as Disneyland Paris opened. No way would the land that invented Existentialism, perfected ennui and made dourness hip go for the hyperactive cheeriness of Mickey...