Word: axioms
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...speak ill of the dead" is an ancient axiom. But there were few good words said of Bonny Lee Bakley, 44, after she was shot in the head in a car outside Vitello's Italian restaurant in Studio City, Calif. Gold digger. Star stalker. Con artist. Grifter. Those were the polite descriptions. Bakley was the mother of two girls born out of wedlock: a seven-year-old who she claimed was fathered by rock-'n'-roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis (paternity was never substantiated), and an 11-month-old she said had been sired by Marlon Brando's troubled...
...situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories is bad, and it is unlikely to improve in the near future. Or so the international media would have us believe. After all, as the axiom goes, bad news makes good copy. While the tragic events of recent months have fully justified such dismal assessments, they have hardly substantiated the media's consistently-and grossly-distorted portrayal of the conflict. Inflammatory headlines, manipulated photographs and utterly unprofessional articles tell a tale of the righteous outrage of the Palestinian masses, long oppressed at Israel's bloody hands, whose innocent children are now slaughtered...
...There is an old axiom: much law, little justice. We like to think the law provides some measure of justice, and sometimes it does. But justice is a more cosmic principle than what the law embraces. The law is good for figuring out the penalty for jaywalking but not for adjudicating each of our just deserts...
...auto-industry axiom that the problem is not selling 'em, it's making 'em. The PT Cruiser is assembled in Toluca, Mexico, where about half the car parts, including the engine, are made. The Mexican plant has an eventual capacity of 180,000 cars but will only make 120,000 this year...
...same $1 trillion to let young workers invest in private accounts and pay seniors their benefits. Officials in both parties believe the ads have helped give Gore a recent edge with Florida voters, which is why the Democrats plan to keep running it. Which leads to another axiom of political advertising: if it's working, stick with...