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...write for a grade, to write what we know others want to hear. Ultimately, however, our public speech is ours and ours alone and as such does not stand apart from us as individuals. I know McGuire only through the written word, but can make the decision not to applaud him on the basis of only that...
...Undergraduate Council has taken some significant steps forward in its effort to become a more effective champion of student interests. The most notable of these reforms is the council's decision to establish a system of popular elections for council executives. We applaud the council for taking this important step...
...applaud Yale for its belief in the viability of the city," New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. said. "Yale's program fits in well with our own deep commitment to revitalizing our neighborhoods...
Most American writers would applaud a talented colleague's fat advances, if only out of self-interest: big, highly publicized deals raise the negotiating floor for everyone. But Amis' grab offended the sensibilities of some of his English literary colleagues. One was novelist Julian Barnes, who had a good reason: he's the husband of Kavanagh, Amis' former agent. Another was A.S. Byatt, whose novel Possession was published by Jonathan Cape, who also brought out Amis' previous novels. "I don't see why I should subsidize his greed," said Byatt, "simply because he has a divorce...
...wrong--I love public radio. I rely on the BBC to relay the increasingly distressing news of our world in soothing British voices. I need NPR to inform me of my elected representatives' latest antics. I have been known to stand and applaud when Nina Totenburg lands a particularly well-aimed barb on Speaker Newt. (Not that it's particularly challenging to make fun of the distinguished gentleman from Georgia, but that's another tirade...