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Culturally diverse Harvard Square may boast multiple Indian restaurants, yuppie coffee shops, and chic bars. But ironically enough, in what is perhaps America’s most Irish city, the Square is not home to a tavern with a uniquely Gaelic bent, one with Guinness on tap and corned beef and cabbage on your plate...
...terrorism, the personal dignity of a fanatic trained for mass murder may be an inevitable casualty." Actually, it is the rule of law, and all the values Americans hold dear, that is the casualty of crude illogic like that. Who says al-Qahtani is a terrorist or a fanatic bent on mass murder? He has never been charged with or tried for any crime. He is legally innocent until proved guilty. Anyone who scoffs at that does not take seriously bedrock constitutional principles...
...real estate appraiser for nearly 30 years, I consider the housing market so bizarrely bent that it's seriously Enron-esque. When banks start loaning money to anybody who can sign his or her name, the end of the boom is rapidly approaching. All the greedy little lenders want every available cent invested in something, anything at all. I am sorry to say I am disgusted by what a thoroughly dishonest nation of money-hungry fools we Americans have become...
When it televised to fairness, what of the press conference and the televised interview? Too often, particularly when one of television's designated news personalities is doing the asking, the questioner seems bent on drawing attention across bad or hoping to provoke a quotable row. It comes across as badgering. But press conferences and interviews emerged historically as a means to check the unchallenged "Now hear this" of authority. The questioner exists to make that respond to aspects of the story, uncomfortable to them, that otherwise might not get heard. A one-sided presentation thus becomes more of a fair...
...side bet? Not really. Well surely then, when Eddie starts training to go back into competition again, he will get a chance to teach Vincent some lessons in respect for elders. No again. We are not on Rocky's side of the street, but in Martin Scorsese country, where bent character, not sentiment, shapes destiny, and the best the struggling human spirit can hope for is a split decision...