Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...This absurd system has to change if Americans are going to make informed decisions at the polls on November 2nd. Mainstream news media need to break loose from the control of party hacks and spinsters and educate the public on what is really happening in the world. The burden of keeping the American public correctly informed should be borne by those entrusted with upholding journalistic standards—not a bunch of comedians writing for The Daily Show...
...politician is brave enough to favor such a position - hunters vote. Vassilis Banavas Thessaloniki, Greece You noted that protesters against the hunting ban have pointed out that foxes will still have to be killed as agricultural pests. That is not only appalling, but also downright absurd. Foxes deserve the same protection as the creatures highlighted in TIME's recent cover story "Saving the Big Cats." The big cats too are killed under the pretext of being pests. Matthias Geiger Birchwil, Switzerland
...happy unless Harvard Yard was torn down for community benefit.” Town-gown relations must be a game of give-and-take; such a hard-line stance is horribly unproductive. Just as it would be wholly inappropriate for Harvard development to truck on unfettered, it is absurd to advocate what is tantamount to a freeze on University expansion...
...happy unless Harvard Yard was torn down for community benefit.” Town-gown relations must be a game of give-and-take; such a hard-line stance is horribly unproductive. Just as it would be wholly inappropriate for Harvard development to truck on unfettered, it is absurd to advocate what is tantamount to a freeze on University expansion...
THREE YEARS BEFORE John Fitch began contemplating the absurd--a boat powered by steam, not wind or men with oars--a warring band of Delaware Indians seized his raft, which was heading up the Ohio River with flour for settlers. The Indians scalped two of his companions; Fitch narrowly escaped a tomahawk blow to the head. This was his second brush with death at the hands of the Delaware tribe, whose swift canoes in 1782 often rendered the settlers' plodding rafts easy prey...