Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Obama's admission of the obvious was selectively applied. Even as he criticized the "game," his allies sent out e-mails announcing that the man leading McCain's vice presidential search, Arthur B. Culvahouse, was - you guessed it - a former lobbyist. To make matters even more complicated - and absurd - Culvahouse used to lobby for Fannie Mae, the rich and well-connected mortgage company where Johnson previously served as chairman and CEO. (Full disclosure: Time Warner, the parent company of TIME, is another of Culvahouse's former clients...
...their own or ultimately will be diagnosed. With the war taking such a heavy psychological toll, some inside the military are starting to ask if men and women who become mentally injured in the service of their country deserve the Purple Heart. To some traditionalists, the idea is absurd on its face, but it is not a theoretical debate -the Pentagon is now weighing a change in policy that would make PTSD, in a term only the military could invent, a "qualifying wound" for the medal...
...financial side, Harvard’s various entities behave independently enough to engender some seemingly absurd transactions: in 2006, the central administration, looking for room to expand, purchased Mass. Hall from FAS after renting part of the building for years. And in a role reversal, the salesman then became the renter when FAS, needing more dorm space for undergraduates, announced this April that it would pay the University to use the space it once owned...
...Obama and these dangerous radicals a scandal? Or is the scandal digging up all this ancient history? Those have been the options in the debate. But the truth is a third option: Ayers and Dohrn are despicable, and yet making an issue of Obama's relationship with them is absurd...
Tragedy in Burma It is absurd in such a catastrophe that the military junta has asked people to vote on a constitutional referendum called "discipline-flourishing democracy" [May 19]. It is equally appalling, while people are dying in the wake of the cyclone, to slow the arrival of relief workers. Too bad Burma has no oil. If it did, I'd bet America and its allies would find a way to solve the problem. John C.M. Lee, HONG KONG...