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Manhattan over Georgia Tech. Absurd...

Author: By W. STEPHEN Venable, | Title: I Know the Future... | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

There are only two logical conclusions to this line of reasoning: 1) that images are incapable of conveying serious meaning or 2) that the particular images in question did not do so. The first conclusion is absurd. The second conclusion is arguable, but Mr. Rascoff does not provide any argument (see above...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peninsula Has Valuable Content | 3/15/1995 | See Source »

...disturbed by David W. Brown's column "Burying the Bell Curve," (signed piece, Feb. 22, 1995) not for it s absurd and misguided attacks on Charles Murray, but for its total lack of original or insightful thought on The Bell Curve debate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debate Over Bell Curve Not Ended | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

...than its companions around the world. At 18, a U.S. citizen is man or woman enough to vote, fight in the military, drive a car, buy cigarettes and pornography and be financially independent. Yet is he or she not enough of an adult to imbibe alcohol? That is an absurd notion. Either 18 translates to full citizenry or it doesn...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: The Paradox of "21" | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

...bound by the strongest player in contemporary American jurisprudence: money [Cover Stories, Feb. 6]. And what are high-priced, celebrity defense attorneys paid to do? Establish that the charges against their clients are false? No. They are paid to lead juries to molehills of doubt and technicality and absurd objection, and to make them into mountains. ``Beyond a reasonable doubt'' becomes ``beyond a shadow of a doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 27, 1995 | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

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