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Harvard's kicking game--including the often ignored areas of returns and coverage, in addition to kicking and punting--is easily the best in the league on paper and on the field. Given the facts, it seems absurd for Mr. Zucker to have called the kicking games of the two teams a toss-up in his analysis...
Shuffling wastes from one leaking site to another that may soon turn porous may seem absurd, but there is no way to eliminate all landfills as short-term disposal necessities. The same is true of the use of hazardous- waste incinerators. While they risk befouling the air, they are nonetheless a necessary temporary expedient...
...Gorbachev declared that the man had "breached our laws and was sentenced by court for that." But Gorbachev flushed and swallowed hard when Interviewer Yves Mourousi asked whether it is true that there are 4 million political prisoners in the Soviet Union. The Soviet leader called the question "absurd, that recalls the propa- ganda of (Josef) Goebbels," the Nazi minister...
...trouble is, Richler can't make fun of the condition because he suffers from it. He harbors so much anger, presumably owing to his own mother, or to his own miserable upbringing in Montreal, that his novel gets bogged down by sheer malice. The fictional Joshua's mother is absurd--a vain, floozy stripper--and his coarse father (adequately played by Alan Arkin, in the film's only good performance) lives a cliche. Richler's story of Jewish lust/angst was better served by Philip Roth in Portnoy's Complaint...
...boyfriend." The single most undisputed fact about AIDS is that gay men, intravenous drug users, and hemophiliacs constitute the overwhelming majority of AIDS victims, and are unequivocally the greatest risk groups. To speak of "the college co-ed and her boyfriend" as a risk group is patently absurd...