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Fang and her roommates said they had no other alternative but to adopt the word. "With three letters, your selection is kind of limited," said Karen Hartshorn...
...folks like the cloven-hooved aspiring-deacons of the Williamson County Commission supposed to hold their own against the likes of Apple and its army of Ivy-league lawyer/consultant mercenaries? It's as though Homer Simpson were to take on Gary Kasparov in a chess match. Or to adopt a closer analogy, like the Undergraduate Council attempting to negotiate with concert tour promoters...
...until local officials somehow get wise to the futility of bidding themselves into poverty to attract businesses, tax abatements are just too damaging overall to justify their possible beneficial employment. Outrageous incentives must go. Taxes are not some form of negotiable tribute: states and localities must adopt fair tax rules and apply them justly to all citizens and businesses. If the participants in this border war can't negotiate a cease-fire, their weapons must be taken away...
...means many church members must drop out, so be it. Does this not betray his past? "I see no break in my views as a theologian," he says. "It is absolute nonsense to say Vatican II left it up to the individual to decide which religious ideas he would adopt and which he would not." As a participant in the council, "I would be making a liar of myself" to say such a thing...
...Indian inhabitants of Eastern North America at the time of the first English settlements were not so easily conquered. These resilient and warlike nations -- principally the Algonquin and Iroquois in the north, the Muskoghean and Choctaw in the south -- were happy to trade with the white man and adopt his weapons, but not his Christian faith or his mores. And they would fight to the death to defend their lands from encroachment...